Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a router operator can go next

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

Router operators set up and operate multi-spindle routing machines, in order to hollow-out or cut various hard materials such as wood, composites, aluminium, steel, plastics; and others, such as foams. They are also able to read blueprints to determine cutting locations and specific sizes.

Craft and related trades workers 34 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: slitter operator, 73%

slitter operator 73% covered edge bander operator 71% covered insulating tube winder 67% covered wood boring machine operator 58% covered nailing machine operator 56% covered router operator You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from router operator. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a router 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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router operator is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a router 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.