Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a paper machine operator can go next

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

Paper machine operators tend a machine that takes in pulp slurry, spread it out over a screen, and drains out the water. The drained slurry is then pressed and dried to produce paper.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 34 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: bleacher operator, 74%

bleacher operator 74% covered digester operator 73% covered tissue paper perforating and … 66% covered laminating machine operator 60% covered wash deinking operator 60% covered paper machine operator You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from paper machine operator. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a paper machine operator already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Index

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paper 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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a paper machine operator already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.