Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a coating machine operator can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a coating machine operator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Coating machine operators set up and tend coating machines that coat metal products with a thin layer of covering of materials such as lacquer, enamel, copper, nickel, zinc, cadmium, chromium or other metal layering in order to protect or decorate the metal products' surfaces. They run all coating machine stations on multiple coaters.

Also known as coating machine operative, spraying machine operator, coating and embossing operator, coater, coater associate, painting machine operator, coater adjuster, coating and baking operator, coater technician, coating and embossing unit operator, coating machine technician, coater operator.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 51 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: dip tank operator, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
dip tank operator 77% covered stamping press operator 66% covered anodising machine operator 65% covered rustproofer 64% covered electroplating machine operat… 62% covered coating machine operator You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from coating machine operator, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a coating machine operator already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A coating machine operator needs 13 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • coating machine parts engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • tend coating machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • industrial paint engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • coating substances engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • monitor moving workpiece in a machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • health and safety in the workplace services
  • remove inadequate workpieces handling and moving
  • remove processed workpiece handling and moving
  • types of metal engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • supply machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a coating machine operator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Coating machine operator is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a coating machine operator’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.