Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a extrusion machine operator can go next

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

Extrusion machine operators set up, monitor and maintain machines which heat or melt raw materials, and pull or push the heated material through a shaped die to form it into a continuous profile with a preset cross section such as tubes, pipes and sheeting. They may also clean and maintain the equipment.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 48 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: stamping press operator, 77%

stamping press operator 77% covered metal rolling mill operator 75% covered straightening machine operator 75% covered thread rolling machine operat… 71% covered metal nibbling operator 70% covered extrusion machine operator You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from extrusion machine operator. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a extrusion machine operator already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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extrusion 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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a extrusion machine operator already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.