Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a plastic heat treatment equipment operator can go next

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

Plastic heat treatment equipment operators manipulate plastic products using machinery such as furnaces or flame-hardening machines in order to temper, anneal or heat-treat. They set up the machinery and read the production instructions to determine the furnace temperature. Plastic heat treatment equipment operators remove products from machines, let them cool down, examine and test products to see if they conform to specifications.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 33 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: plastic rolling machine operator, 69%

plastic rolling machine opera… 69% covered fibre machine tender 55% covered blow moulding machine operator 53% covered coking furnace operator 51% covered pultrusion machine operator 47% covered plastic heat treatment eq… You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from plastic heat treatment equipment operator. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a plastic heat treatment equipment 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

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plastic heat treatment equipment operator is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a plastic heat treatment equipment 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.