Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an ornamental metal worker can go next

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

Ornamental metal workers use finishing equipment and machinery to shape and finish fabricated ornamental metal workpieces, often used for the installation process in construction, such as railings, staircases, open steel flooring, fences and gates, and others.

Also known as precision structural steel fitter, welder fabricator, welder fabricator installer, structural and ornamental metalwork steel fabricator, structural and ornamental metalwork metal fabricator, precision structural metal fitter, ornamental metalwork metal fabricator, Structural and ornamental metalwork copper fabricator.

Craft and related trades workers 54 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: brazier, 61%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
brazier 61% covered solderer 58% covered laser marking machine operator 56% covered blacksmith 56% covered metal engraver 55% covered ornamental metal worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from ornamental metal worker, 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 ornamental metal worker 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 ornamental metal worker 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
  • cut ornamental design handling and moving
  • shape ornamental design handling and moving
  • shape metal over anvils handling and moving
  • use metalworking tools handling and moving
  • torch temperature for metal processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • mark a metal workpiece handling and moving
  • mark designs on metal pieces handling and moving
  • heat metals handling and moving
  • ensure correct metal temperature working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • apply precision metalworking techniques working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Ornamental metal worker 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 ornamental metal worker’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.