Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a meat preparations operator can go next

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

Meat preparations operators prepare fresh meat with ingredients such as spices, herbs or additives in order to make ready-for-sale meat preparations.

Also known as meatworker, meat processing worker, abbatoir worker, meat worker.

Craft and related trades workers 58 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: meat cutter, 79%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
meat cutter 79% covered prepared meat operator 79% covered butcher 70% covered fish trimmer 67% covered halal butcher 65% covered meat preparations operator You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from meat preparations 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 meat preparations 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 meat preparations operator needs 37 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
  • typology of meat parts engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • weigh parts of animal carcasses information skills
  • operate meat processing equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • grind meat working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • manage packaging material handling and moving
  • monitor freezing processes information skills
  • prepare specialised meat products handling and moving
  • tend meat packaging machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • clean the trimming box handling and moving
  • handle meat processing equipment in cooling rooms handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Meat preparations operator 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 meat preparations 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.