Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an oil and gas production manager can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an oil and gas production manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Oil and gas production managers coordinate and implement short and medium term oil and gas production schedules and plans, such as drilling, extraction operations and waste management. They steer one or more units and oversee the implementation of technical and human means, within the framework of objectives of volume, quality and planning. Oil and gas production managers design and ensure that the production plans and schedules are met.

Also known as oil production project manager, gas production scheduler, gas operations manager, gas field production manager, gas production manager, oil and gas operations manager, oil and gas production project manager, oil and gas production scheduler, oilfield production manager, oil production manager, oil production scheduler, oil field production manager.

Managers 39 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: mine production manager, 57%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
mine production manager 57% covered petroleum engineer 52% covered refinery shift manager 46% covered mine shift manager 46% covered mineral processing engineer 42% covered oil and gas production ma… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from oil and gas production manager, 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 an oil and gas production manager 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

An oil and gas production manager needs 21 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
  • inform on workplace safety standards communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage heavy equipment management skills
  • gas market engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • think proactively communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage medium term objectives management skills
  • natural gas engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • write production reports communication, collaboration and creativity
  • apply safety management assisting and caring
  • leadership principles generic programmes and qualifications
  • report on production results information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an oil and gas production manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Oil and gas production manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. 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 an oil and gas production manager’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.