Where a radiation protection technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a radiation protection technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Radiation protection technicians monitor radiation levels in buildings and facilities to ensure compliance with health and safety standards, and to prevent dangerous elevations in the radiation level. They take measures to minimise radiation emissions, and to prevent further contamination in the event of radiation pollution, by developing radiation protection plans, in particular for nuclear plants and facilities.
Also known as radiation protection planning technician, radiological protection technician, radiation protection monitoring technician, radiation protection expert, nuclear plant radiation monitor, nuclear plant radiation technician, radiation protection safety technician, radiation protection compliance technician, radiological monitoring technician.
Technicians and associate professionals 35 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: decontamination worker, 62%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A radiation protection technician needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- nuclear reprocessing engineering, manufacturing and construction
- develop radiation protection strategies management skills
- instruct employees on radiation protection communication, collaboration and creativity
- calculate exposure to radiation information skills
- monitor radiation levels information skills
- radioactive contamination natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- develop hazardous waste management strategies management skills
- metrology education
- monitor nuclear power plant systems constructing
- hazardous waste treatment services
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a radiation protection technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- hazardous waste technician 61% covered · difficulty 40.3
- radiation protection officer 58% covered · difficulty 43.4
- nuclear reactor operator 53% covered · difficulty 47.6
- nuclear engineer 52% covered · difficulty 48.9
- nuclear technician 46% covered · difficulty 53.7
- waste treatment engineer 43% covered · difficulty 56.4
- hazardous materials inspector 39% covered · difficulty 59.7
- decontamination worker 38% covered · difficulty 60.3
- waste management supervisor 28% covered · difficulty 69.5
- medical physics expert 23% covered · difficulty 73.1
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Radiation protection 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 radiation protection 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.