Where a vacuum forming machine operator can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a vacuum forming machine operator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Vacuum forming machine operators tend, control, and maintain machines that heat sheets of plastic before moving them around a mould, using vacuum-suction; when these sheets become cool, they are permanently set in the shape of the mould.
Also known as thermo-forming machine tender, plastic molding machine setter, vacuum forming machine operative, vacuum molding machine operative, vacuum forming machine tender, vacuum moulding machine operative, plastic molding machine tender, plastic moulding machine tender, thermoforming operator, thermoforming machine operative, thermo-forming machine worker, thermoforming machine tender.
Plant and machine operators and assemblers 31 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: pultrusion machine operator, 72%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- pultrusion machine operator 72% covered · difficulty 31.7
- filament winding operator 66% covered · difficulty 39.4
- plastic rolling machine operator 60% covered · difficulty 37.5
- fibre machine tender 50% covered · difficulty 53.2
- plastic and rubber products manufacturing supervisor 48% covered · difficulty 50.4
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A vacuum forming machine operator needs 15 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- heat up vacuum forming medium handling and moving
- prepare mould for vacuum forming handling and moving
- operate vacuum machines handling and moving
- monitor processing environment conditions information skills
- coating substances engineering, manufacturing and construction
- control temperature information skills
- extract products from moulds information skills
- optimise production processes parameters communication, collaboration and creativity
- monitor gauge constructing
- supply machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a vacuum forming machine operator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Vacuum forming machine operator is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a vacuum forming machine operator’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.