Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a corrosion technician can go next

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

Corrosion technicians monitor the integrity from a pipeline and provide repairs to it if needed. They ensure that the pipelines are properly connected and are in line with the health and safety regulations. Corrosion technicians inspect cathodic protection systems and pipeline connection points for corrosion. They may also assist in the designing of pipelines, analyse soil and write reports on technical issues.

Also known as offshore corrosion technician, surface technician, corrosion monitoring technician, pipeline operations technician, pipeline corrosion control technician, corrosion supervisor, cathodic protection technician, corrosion control technician, surface coating technician.

Technicians and associate professionals 39 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: chemical engineering technician, 43%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
chemical engineering technici… 43% covered surface engineer 36% covered wastewater engineer 30% covered soil surveying technician 29% covered assayer 29% covered corrosion technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from corrosion technician, 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 corrosion technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A corrosion technician needs 19 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
  • corrosion types natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • repair pipelines constructing
  • collaborate with engineers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • types of pipelines engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • inspect pipelines constructing
  • recognise signs of corrosion information skills
  • risk management business, administration and law
  • write technical reports communication, collaboration and creativity
  • quality assurance methodologies business, administration and law
  • execute analytical mathematical calculations information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Corrosion technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 corrosion technician’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.