Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a tool and die maker can go next

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

Tool and die makers operate a variety of equipment and machinery designed to create metal tools and dies, which are both needed in several areas of manufacturing, and produce these tools in all steps of the production process. They design the tools and dies, then cut and shape them to size and finish them by manually operated machine tools, power tools, hand tools, or programming and tending CNC tool and die making machines.

Also known as tool machine set up operative, jig maker, die dresser, tool dresser, tool setting technician, tool setting operator, tool machine operative, tool setting operative, tool-setting operative, tool setter, die maker, tool machine set up operator.

Craft and related trades workers 54 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: metal drawing machine operator, 73%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
metal drawing machine operator 73% covered spring maker 71% covered metal rolling mill operator 71% covered riveter 70% covered drill press operator 69% covered tool and die maker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from tool and die 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 tool and die maker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A tool and die maker needs 22 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
  • operate file for deburring working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • maintain edged hand tools handling and moving
  • machine tools engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • operate grinding hand tools handling and moving
  • operate metal polishing equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • dies engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • join metals constructing
  • prepare pieces for joining handling and moving
  • adjust cut sizes handling and moving
  • smooth burred surfaces handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a tool and die maker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Tool and die maker 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

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a tool and die 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.