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Where a forestry machinery technician can go next

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

Forestry machinery technicians maintain and transport forestry machinery. As part of the maintenance of forestry machinery, they make use of specialised software and data recording systems and instruments.

Also known as forest machine mechanic, forestry machinery repairman, forest machinery operative, transportation equipment operator, forest machine transporter operator, forestry equipment machinist, forest machine transporter operative, forestry machine mechanic, forestry machine repairer, forestry machine operator, forestry machinery operator, forestry machinery operative.

Craft and related trades workers 27 skills on file 1 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: forestry equipment operator, 16%

Fig. 2 · Career map 1 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 1 nearest destinations from forestry machinery 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 forestry machinery technician already covers. All 1 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only one move is listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

forestry equipment operator 16% covered · difficulty 85.5

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A forestry machinery technician 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

drive timber machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
repair ICT devices working with machinery and specialised equipment
operate forestry machinery working with machinery and specialised equipment
maintain forestry equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
repair equipment on site working with machinery and specialised equipment
analyse ICT system working with computers
industrial software information and communication technologies (icts)
manoeuvre heavy trucks working with machinery and specialised equipment
report to the team leader information skills
de-limb trees handling and moving

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

forestry equipment operator 29% covered · difficulty 69

Index

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Forestry machinery technician 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 forestry machinery 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.