Where a physics technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a physics technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Physics technicians monitor physical processes and perform tests for manufacturing, educational or scientific purposes. They work in laboratories, schools or production facilities where they assist physicists in their work. Physics technicians perform technical or practical work and report about their results.
Also known as reprographics technician, physics lab technician, health physics technician, physics assistant, physicist assistant, radiation health technician, medical physics technician, physics laboratory technician, nuclear physics technician.
Technicians and associate professionals 33 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: bacteriology technician, 34%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A physics technician needs 13 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- analyse experimental laboratory data information skills
- maintain laboratory equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- gather experimental data information skills
- apply safety procedures in laboratory assisting and caring
- assist scientific research communication, collaboration and creativity
- report analysis results information skills
- laboratory techniques natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- apply statistical analysis techniques information skills
- perform laboratory tests working with machinery and specialised equipment
- use measurement instruments working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a physics technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- physicist 78% covered · difficulty 22.8
- geology technician 47% covered · difficulty 51.4
- scientific laboratory technician 45% covered · difficulty 52.7
- medical physics expert 37% covered · difficulty 59.6
- biochemistry technician 35% covered · difficulty 60.9
- biology technician 35% covered · difficulty 60.9
- botanical technician 34% covered · difficulty 62.3
- chemical engineering technician 34% covered · difficulty 62.3
- meteorology technician 31% covered · difficulty 65.6
- agricultural technician 27% covered · difficulty 68.1
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Physics technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a physics technician’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.