Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a roustabout can go next

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

Roustabouts maintain and repair oil field equipment and machinery using hand and power tools. They do general labor, such as cleaning, digging trenches, scraping and painting rig components.

Also known as oil rig leasehand.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 18 skills on file 3 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: oil rig motorhand, 28%

Fig. 2 · Career map 3 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
oil rig motorhand 28% covered roughneck 24% covered derrickhand 19% covered roustabout You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 3 nearest destinations from roustabout, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a roustabout already covers. All 3 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 3 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A roustabout needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • maintain pipe deck handling and moving
  • make foundations for derricks constructing
  • clear drill sites handling and moving
  • connect oil well heads constructing
  • supply rigging equipment management skills
  • maintain oil field machinery working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • work in drilling teams communication, collaboration and creativity
  • adjust tightness of engine parts constructing
  • clean up spilled oil handling and moving
  • transport pipes working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a roustabout does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Roustabout 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

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a roustabout’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.