Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a drop forging hammer worker can go next

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

Drop forging hammer workers utilise forging machinery and equipment, specifically machined hammers, in order to form ferrous and non-ferrous metal workpieces to their desired shape. They tend the forging hammers that are dropped onto the workpiece in order to reshape it after the form of the die, which can be closed or open, fully enclosing the workpiece or not.

Also known as drop forge operator, drop forge hand, drop forge operative, drop forger, forge operative, die forger, forging roll technician, forging roll operator, forging press operator, drop forge set up operator, forger tender.

Craft and related trades workers 48 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: upsetting machine operator, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
upsetting machine operator 75% covered metal drawing machine operator 75% covered stamping press operator 74% covered metal rolling mill operator 72% covered extrusion machine operator 71% covered drop forging hammer worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from drop forging hammer worker, 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 drop forging hammer worker 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 drop forging hammer worker needs 18 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
  • drop hammer types engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • tend drop forging hammer working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • operate forging tongs handling and moving
  • remove scale from metal workpiece working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • forging processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • ensure correct metal temperature working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • monitor moving workpiece in a machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • remove inadequate workpieces handling and moving
  • monitor gauge constructing
  • remove processed workpiece handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a drop forging hammer worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Drop forging hammer worker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 drop forging hammer worker’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.