Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a heating technician can go next

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

Heating technicians install and maintain gas, electric, oil, solid-fuel and multiple fuel heating and ventilation equipment as stand-alone heating and ventilation systems or build into machinery and transport equipment. They follow instructions and blueprints, perform maintenance on systems, perform safety checks and repair the systems.

Also known as coal fired heating inspector, electrical heating engineer, solid-fuel fired heating inspector, HVAC heating mechanic, solid fuel heating inspector, coke fired heating inspector, heating engineer, oil fired heating inspector, HVAC inspector.

Craft and related trades workers 62 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: pneumatic systems technician, 62%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
pneumatic systems technician 62% covered forge equipment technician 61% covered fluid power technician 60% covered moulding machine technician 58% covered agricultural machinery techni… 57% covered heating technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from heating 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 heating technician 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 heating technician needs 26 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
  • install radiators constructing
  • integrate biogas energy in buildings constructing
  • design heating and cooling emission systems communication, collaboration and creativity
  • install heating furnace constructing
  • types of fuels natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • design an electric heating system communication, collaboration and creativity
  • install heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration ducts constructing
  • perform a feasibility study on electric heating information skills
  • perform a feasibility study on heat pumps information skills
  • domestic cooling systems engineering, manufacturing and construction
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Heating 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 heating 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.