Where a metal drawing machine operator can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a metal drawing machine operator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Metal drawing machine operators set up and operate drawing machines for ferrous and non-ferrous metal products, designed to provide wires, bars, pipes, hollow profiles and tubes with their specific form by reducing its cross-section and by pulling the working materials through a series of drawing dies.
Also known as wire drawer, forming machine operative, draw machine operator, metal drawing machine technician, draw machine operative, metal drawing machine operative, wiredrawing setter, wiredrawing machine tender, draw machine technician, wirer drawer machine operator, forming machine technician.
Plant and machine operators and assemblers 39 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: chain making machine operator, 79%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A metal drawing machine operator needs 15 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- cold drawing processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
- dies engineering, manufacturing and construction
- monitor moving workpiece in a machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
- quality and cycle time optimisation engineering, manufacturing and construction
- remove inadequate workpieces handling and moving
- monitor gauge constructing
- remove processed workpiece handling and moving
- types of metal engineering, manufacturing and construction
- supply machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
- monitor automated machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a metal drawing machine operator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- swaging machine operator 78% covered · difficulty 26.8
- wire weaving machine operator 78% covered · difficulty 27.5
- computer numerical control machine operator 77% covered · difficulty 27.8
- metal rolling mill operator 77% covered · difficulty 29.2
- upsetting machine operator 77% covered · difficulty 28.5
- drop forging hammer worker 75% covered · difficulty 30.6
- metal nibbling operator 75% covered · difficulty 29.7
- spring maker 75% covered · difficulty 30.4
- screw machine operator 74% covered · difficulty 32
- tool and die maker 73% covered · difficulty 32.4
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Metal drawing machine operator is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a metal drawing 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.