Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a gas service technician can go next

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

Gas service technicians install and maintain gas service appliances and systems in facilities or buildings. They install the equipment in accordance with regulations, repair faults, and investigate leaks and other problems. They test the equipment and advise on the use and care of appliances and systems which use gas energy.

Also known as gas plant engineer, gas inspector, gas supply engineer, gas treater, gas plant dispatcher, gas distributor, gas plant inspector, gas equipment service technician, gas distribution inspector, gas installer, gas supply technician, gas distribution supervisor.

Craft and related trades workers 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: gas processing plant operator, 25%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
gas processing plant operator 25% covered biogas technician 24% covered gas station operator 17% covered steam plant operator 17% covered pipeline maintenance worker 17% covered gas service technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from gas service 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 gas service 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 gas service technician needs 12 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
  • repair heating equipment constructing
  • operate boiler working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • prepare copper gas-lines pipes constructing
  • install metal gas piping constructing
  • repair pipelines constructing
  • natural gas engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • ensure correct gas pressure working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • interpret technical requirements information skills
  • types of pipelines engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • fuel gas engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Gas service 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 gas service 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.