Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a stone planer can go next

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

Stone planers operate and maintain planing machines that are used for stone blocks and slabs finishing. They manipulate the stone and ensure that the required parameters are according to specifications.

Also known as stone planing machine operator, stone slab planer, stone planing machine tender, stone planing machine setter, stone planing machine operative, planer of stones.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 38 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: stone splitter, 66%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
stone splitter 66% covered stone polisher 63% covered stone driller 61% covered nailing machine operator 61% covered mineral crushing operator 60% covered stone planer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from stone planer, 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 stone planer 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 stone planer needs 20 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
  • tend planing machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • regulate cutting speed assisting and caring
  • prepare stone for smoothing handling and moving
  • use stone splitting techniques handling and moving
  • inspect stone surface information skills
  • maneuver stone blocks handling and moving
  • mark stone workpieces handling and moving
  • types of stone for working engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • measure flatness of a surface information skills
  • types of sawing blades engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Stone planer 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 stone planer’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.