Where a road sign installer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a road sign installer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Road sign installers take road signs to the specified location and erect it. The installers may drill a hole into the ground, or remove existing paving to access the soil. They may anchor heavy signs in concrete.
Also known as road sign worker, highway sign installer, road sign team worker, traffic sign installer, road sign operator, road sign erector, highway sign erector, traffic sign erector.
Elementary occupations 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: road maintenance technician, 47%
- 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 road sign installer 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.
- road signage standards services
- operate hand drill handling and moving
- place temporary road signage management skills
- inspect construction sites information skills
- interpret traffic signals assisting and caring
- operate GPS systems working with computers
- road traffic laws business, administration and law
- interpret 2D plans information skills
- interpret 3D plans information skills
- inspect construction supplies information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a road sign installer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- road marker 61% covered · difficulty 38.8
- kitchen unit installer 57% covered · difficulty 43.2
- civil engineering worker 55% covered · difficulty 42.9
- road maintenance technician 55% covered · difficulty 43.7
- bathroom fitter 51% covered · difficulty 48
- sprinkler fitter 51% covered · difficulty 48
- construction scaffolder 45% covered · difficulty 52.7
- door installer 45% covered · difficulty 52.7
- road maintenance worker 45% covered · difficulty 52
- construction commercial diver 37% covered · difficulty 59.4
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Road sign installer is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. 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 road sign installer’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.