Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a surface miner can go next

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

Surface miners perform a wide range of ancillary surface mining operations, often involving a high level of spatial awareness, such as pumping, dust suppression and the transport of materials including sand, stone and clay to the point of production.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 14 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: underground miner, 78%

underground miner 78% covered surface mine plant operator 52% covered mining assistant 48% covered underground heavy equipment o… 43% covered explosives engineer 28% covered surface miner You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from surface miner. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a surface miner 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

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Index

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surface miner 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 miner 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.