Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a spring maker can go next

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

Spring makers operate a variety of equipment and machinery designed to manufacture different types of spring, including leaf, coil, torsion, clock, tension, and extension spring.

Also known as spring making machine operator, wire coiler spring maker setter, spring making machine tender, box spring maker, wire coiler spring maker tender setter, leaf spring maker, spring making machine setter, extension spring maker, spring setting operator, springer, tension spring maker, coil spring maker.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 41 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: metal drawing machine operator, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
metal drawing machine operator 75% covered wire weaving machine operator 74% covered chain making machine operator 70% covered nailing machine operator 69% covered stamping press operator 69% covered spring maker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from spring maker, 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 spring maker 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 spring maker 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
  • coil metal working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • tend spring making machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • safely handle metal wire under tension handling and moving
  • types of spring engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • monitor moving workpiece in a machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • supply machine with appropriate tools handling and moving
  • remove inadequate workpieces handling and moving
  • remove processed workpiece handling and moving
  • types of metal engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • operate precision measuring equipment 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 spring maker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Spring maker 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 spring maker’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.