Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a mouldmaker can go next

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

Mouldmakers manually create moulds for the production of metal products. They mix sand and hardening materials to obtain a specialised mixture. They then use a pattern and one or more cores to produce the right shape impression in this material. The shaped material is then left to set, later to be used as a mould in the production of ferrous and non-ferrous metal castings.

Craft and related trades workers 28 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: moulding machine operator, 84%

foundry operative 59% covered foundry moulder 47% covered moulding machine operator 84% covered hand brick moulder 27% covered casting machine operator 26% covered mouldmaker You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from mouldmaker. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a mouldmaker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Index

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mouldmaker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a mouldmaker already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.