Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an organ builder can go next

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

Organ builders create and assemble parts to build organs according to specified instructions or diagrams. They sand wood, tune, test and inspect the finished instrument.

Also known as pipe organ maker, organ constructor, pipe organ designer, organ maker, pipe organ builder, organ designer, pipe organ constructor.

Craft and related trades workers 43 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: wind musical instrument maker, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
wind musical instrument maker 77% covered membranophone musical instrum… 76% covered stringed musical instrument m… 75% covered violin maker 75% covered guitar maker 74% covered organ builder You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from organ builder, 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 organ builder already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An organ builder needs 20 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
  • install organs handling and moving
  • produce organ components handling and moving
  • tune keyboard music instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create wood joints handling and moving
  • tuning techniques arts and humanities
  • assemble musical instrument parts handling and moving
  • create musical instrument parts handling and moving
  • musical instruments materials arts and humanities
  • restore musical instruments handling and moving
  • repair musical instruments handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an organ builder does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Organ builder is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 organ builder’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.