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Where a theme park technician can go next

3 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a theme park technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Theme park technicians work to maintain and repair amusement park attractions. They need a strong technical knowledge and have specialised knowledge of the rides they are assigned to maintain. Theme park technicians usually keep records of the maintenance and repairs performed as well as uptime and downtime for each serviced attraction. Attention to safety is especially important in the maintenance and repair of amusement park rides.

Craft and related trades workers 17 skills on file 3 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: attraction operator, 69%

Fig. 2 — the 3 nearest destinations from theme park technician. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a theme park technician already covers. All 3 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

attraction operator 69% covered · difficulty 28.8

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Index

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theme park technician is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 theme park technician 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.