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

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

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
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from tool and die maker. 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.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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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.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a tool and die maker 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.