Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a knitting machine operator can go next

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

Knitting machine operators set up, operate and monitor knitting machines. They work with specialised machinery, techniques and materials to process threads of yarn into knitted products such as clothing, carpets or rope. They maintain and repair knitting machinery and ensure operations run without problems.

Also known as knitting machine setter, knitter operator, knitting machinist, knitting machine tender, warp knitting machine operator, net-knitting machine operator, machine knitting mender.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 32 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: knitter, 79%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
knitter 79% covered tufting operator 62% covered weaving machine operator 62% covered carpet handicraft worker 56% covered carpet weaver 56% covered knitting machine operator You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from knitting machine operator, 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 knitting machine operator 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 knitting machine operator needs 20 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
  • tend knitting machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • set-up weft knitting machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • textile measurement engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • manufacture weft knitted fabrics working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • types of textile fibres engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • textile techniques engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • textile products, textile semi-finished products and raw materials engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • cut textiles handling and moving
  • textile industry engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • fabric types engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Knitting machine operator is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. 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 knitting machine operator’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.