Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a surgical instrument maker can go next

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

Surgical instrument makers create, repair and design surgical instruments, such as clamps, graspers, mechanical cutters, scopes, probes and other surgical instruments.

Also known as surgical device repairer, medical instrument assembler, surgical device designer, medical instrument design technician, surgical instrument technician, medical instrument technician, orthopaedic appliance maker, surgical device assembler, surgical instrument designer, medical instrument repairer, surgical instrument design technician, surgical instrument repairer.

Craft and related trades workers 37 skills on file 2 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: gear machinist, 20%

Fig. 2 · Career map 2 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
gear machinist 20% covered medical device assembler 20% covered surgical instrument maker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 2 nearest destinations from surgical instrument 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 surgical instrument maker already covers. All 2 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 2 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A surgical instrument maker needs 18 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
  • surgical instruments health and welfare
  • test accuracy of surgical instruments information skills
  • manipulate stainless steel handling and moving
  • tend tumbling machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • tend metal polishing machine handling and moving
  • tend surface grinding machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • tend metal sawing machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • hot forging engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • tend boring machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • cold forging engineering, manufacturing and construction
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Surgical instrument maker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a surgical instrument 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.