Where a numerical tool and process control programmer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a numerical tool and process control programmer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Numerical tool and process control programmers develop computer programs to control automatic machines and equipment involved in manufacturing processes. They analyse blueprints and job orders, conduct computer simulations and trial runs.
Also known as numerical tool setting operator, numerical process control programmer, numerical tool programmer, numerical process control operator, numerical process control set up operator, numerical process control tool setting operator, numerical tool setter, numerical tool machine set up operator, numerical tool l programme setter, numerical tool and process control programer, numerical tool machine operator, numerical process control supervisor.
Professionals 66 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: computer-aided design operator, 68%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A numerical tool and process control programmer needs 51 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- ICT system programming information and communication technologies (icts)
- blueprints engineering, manufacturing and construction
- apply control process statistical methods information skills
- statistical process control natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- CoffeeScript information and communication technologies (icts)
- Erlang information and communication technologies (icts)
- Smalltalk (computer programming) information and communication technologies (icts)
- Microsoft Visual C++ information and communication technologies (icts)
- ABAP information and communication technologies (icts)
- APL information and communication technologies (icts)
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a numerical tool and process control programmer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- computer hardware engineering technician 75% covered · difficulty 38.3
- computer hardware engineer 72% covered · difficulty 40.9
- computer-aided design operator 72% covered · difficulty 41
- ICT network administrator 69% covered · difficulty 43.9
- ICT security technician 69% covered · difficulty 43.9
- ICT system architect 69% covered · difficulty 43.9
- ICT technician 69% covered · difficulty 43.9
- telecommunications engineering technician 69% covered · difficulty 43.9
- software developer 69% covered · difficulty 44.7
- chief information officer 68% covered · difficulty 45.4
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How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a numerical tool and process control programmer’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.