Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a metallurgical technician can go next

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

Metallurgical technicians provide technical support in researching and performing experiments on minerals, metals, alloys, oil and gas. They also assist in improving the methods of extraction.

Also known as metallurgist, mining technician, minerals technician, metallurgy test technician, metallurgical research technician, metallurgical quality technician, metallurgical test technician, metallurgy research technician, metallurgy technician, extraction technician, development metallurgist, metallurgy quality technician.

Technicians and associate professionals 33 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: chemical metallurgist, 51%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
chemical metallurgist 51% covered metallurgist 41% covered process metallurgist 38% covered assayer 32% covered geochemist 24% covered metallurgical technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from metallurgical 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 a metallurgical technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A metallurgical technician 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.

Required skill Area
  • metal drawing processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • interpret extraction data information skills
  • alloys of precious metals engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • corrosion types natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • precious metals engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • test raw minerals information skills
  • collect samples handling and moving
  • precious metal processing arts and humanities
  • perform sample testing information skills
  • analyse experimental laboratory data information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Metallurgical technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 metallurgical 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.