Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a foundry manager can go next

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

Foundry managers coordinate and implement short and medium term casting production schedules, and coordinate the development, support and improvement of casting processes, and the reliability efforts of the maintenance and engineering departments. They also partner with ongoing remediation initiatives.

Also known as production controller, engineering manager, foundry plant manager, foundry operations manager, foundry production manager, process manager.

Managers 27 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: metal production manager, 29%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
metal production manager 29% covered product development manager 24% covered process metallurgist 22% covered metallurgist 20% covered chemical metallurgist 18% covered foundry manager You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from foundry manager, 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 foundry manager 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 foundry manager needs 11 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
  • manage commercial risks information skills
  • optimise financial performance management skills
  • forecast organisational risks information skills
  • improve business processes management skills
  • legal requirements of ICT products business, administration and law
  • deal with pressure from unexpected circumstances communication, collaboration and creativity
  • cost management business, administration and law
  • types of metal manufacturing processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • follow company standards assisting and caring
  • ensure compliance with environmental legislation assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Foundry manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. 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 foundry manager’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.