Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a spot welder can go next

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

Spot welders set up and tend spot welding machines designed to press and join metal workpieces together. The metal resistance to the passage of electrical current and the subsequent heat created in the process allows for the local melting and joining of the parts.

Also known as welder fabricator, construction welder, welder-fitter, electric arc welder, flash welder, fitter-welder, butt welder, resistance welder, welder-fabricator, sheet metal welder, sheet-metal welder, ultrasonic metal welder.

Craft and related trades workers 53 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: riveter, 73%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
riveter 73% covered brazier 70% covered nailing machine operator 69% covered metal rolling mill operator 69% covered boring machine operator 68% covered spot welder You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from spot welder, 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 spot welder already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A spot welder needs 19 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
  • spot welding machine parts engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • apply spot welding techniques constructing
  • prepare pieces for joining handling and moving
  • ensure correct metal temperature working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • electric current engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • spot metal imperfections information skills
  • apply precision metalworking techniques working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • operate welding equipment constructing
  • remove inadequate workpieces handling and moving
  • monitor gauge constructing
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Spot welder 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

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