Where a street lighting electrician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a street lighting electrician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Street lighting electricians construct and maintain electric power transmission and distribution in street lights. They maintain, test and repair street lights in compliance with safety regulations.
Also known as street lighting operative, street light repair electrician, street light electrician, highway lighting operative, street lighting repair electrician, highway lights operative, street light operative, highway lighting installation electrician, highway lighting repair electrician, street lighting installation electrician.
Craft and related trades workers 36 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: electrical power distributor, 64%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A street lighting electrician needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- comply with electrical safety regulations assisting and caring
- install power lines working with machinery and specialised equipment
- prevent technical problems with lighting equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- repair underground power cables working with machinery and specialised equipment
- inspect underground power cables constructing
- artificial lighting systems engineering, manufacturing and construction
- transmission towers engineering, manufacturing and construction
- electric current engineering, manufacturing and construction
- electrical discharge engineering, manufacturing and construction
- electrical power safety regulations engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a street lighting electrician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- electricity distribution technician 70% covered · difficulty 35.8
- overhead line worker 63% covered · difficulty 41.8
- cable jointer 61% covered · difficulty 43.3
- power lines supervisor 56% covered · difficulty 47.5
- electrical power distributor 52% covered · difficulty 51.2
- electrical transmission system operator 45% covered · difficulty 56.5
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Street lighting electrician is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a street lighting electrician’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.