Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
RecordOccupation

Where a surface mine plant operator can go next

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

Surface mine plant operators control heavy-duty equipment such as excavators and dump trucks, often involving a high level of spatial awareness, to excavate, load and transport ore, raw mineral including sand, stone and clay and overburden at quarries and surface mines.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 24 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: surface miner, 75%

surface miner 75% covered underground heavy equipment o… 61% covered underground miner 53% covered mining assistant 46% covered mine control room operator 40% covered surface mine plant operat… You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from surface mine plant operator. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a surface mine plant 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

Index

Look up another occupation

surface mine plant operator 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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a surface mine plant 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.