Where a metal planer operator can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a metal planer operator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Metal planer operators set up and operate a planer, which is a metalworking machine designed to cut excess material from a metal workpiece using linear relative motion between the planer's cutting tool and the workpiece in order to create a linear toolpath and cut.
Also known as metal milling machine operator, lathe and turning machine tool operator, planer set up operator, lathe and turning machine tool setter, lathe and turning machine tool tender.
Craft and related trades workers 36 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: metalworking lathe operator, 63%
- 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 planer operator needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- types of planing cutters engineering, manufacturing and construction
- operate metal sheet shaker working with machinery and specialised equipment
- tend metal planer working with machinery and specialised equipment
- measure flatness of a surface information skills
- monitor moving workpiece in a machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
- dispose of cutting waste material handling and moving
- quality and cycle time optimisation engineering, manufacturing and construction
- supply machine with appropriate tools handling and moving
- remove inadequate workpieces handling and moving
- remove processed workpiece handling and moving
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a metal planer operator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- deburring machine operator 78% covered · difficulty 24.4
- metalworking lathe operator 75% covered · difficulty 26.8
- cylindrical grinder operator 73% covered · difficulty 28.7
- thread rolling machine operator 62% covered · difficulty 39.9
- metal furniture machine operator 48% covered · difficulty 52.6
- automated assembly line operator 35% covered · difficulty 64.1
- tool grinder 35% covered · difficulty 64
- jewellery polisher 26% covered · difficulty 70.9
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Metal planer operator is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 planer 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.