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Where an irrigation technician can go next

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

Irrigation technicians specialise in the installation, maintenance and repair of sprinklers, pipes and other irrigation systems. They operate machinery used for irrigation systems handling, and ensure compliance with environmental standards.

Also known as irrigation machinery technician, sprinkler system operator, irrigation pipework technician, irrigation system maintenance technician, irrigation worker, irrigation maintenance technician, irrigation machinery operator, irrigation machinery operative, irrigation system technician, irrigation operative, sprinkler system technician, irrigation machinery worker.

Craft and related trades workers 22 skills on file 2 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: water systems engineering technician, 28%

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

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

The 2 nearest destinations from irrigation 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 an irrigation technician already covers. All 2 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 2 moves are 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.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An irrigation technician 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

keep competences about irrigation systems up-to-date information skills
maintain sprinkler systems constructing
compute irrigation pressure information skills
maintain irrigation controllers working with machinery and specialised equipment
types of sprinklers services
install irrigation systems constructing
maintain irrigation systems constructing
irrigation systems agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
water pressure natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
lay pipe installation constructing

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

water engineer 46% covered · difficulty 51.4

Index

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Irrigation 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 an irrigation 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.