Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a packaging and filling machine operator can go next

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

Packaging and filling machine operators tend machines for preparing and packing food products in various packaging containers such as jars, cartons, cans, and others.

Also known as packaging and filling operator, packaging and filling machine worker, packaging and filling operative, packaging and filling worker.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 32 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: canning and bottling line operator, 49%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
canning and bottling line ope… 49% covered carbonation operator 47% covered cocoa mill operator 45% covered cocoa press operator 39% covered fruit-press operator 39% covered packaging and filling mac… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from packaging and filling machine operator, 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 a packaging and filling machine operator 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

A packaging and filling machine operator 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
  • operate package processing equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • ensure quality control in packaging information skills
  • dispose non-food waste within the food industry handling and moving
  • work in conveyor belts in food manufacturing working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • tend packaging machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • identify the factors causing changes in food during storage information skills
  • operate weighing machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • stack goods handling and moving
  • check quality of products on the production line information skills
  • clean food and beverage machinery handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a packaging and filling machine operator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Packaging and filling machine operator is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a packaging and filling machine operator’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.