Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a wash deinking operator can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a wash deinking operator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Wash deinking operators operate a tank where recycled paper is mixed with water and dispersants to wash out printing inks. The solution, called a pulp slurry, is then dewatered to flush out the dissolved inks.

Also known as deinking operator, wash deinking technician, deinking technician, deinking worker, wash deinking worker, deinking operative, wash deinking operative, wash deinking specialist, deinking specialist.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 37 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: digester operator, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
digester operator 75% covered bleacher operator 69% covered paper machine operator 62% covered paper pulp moulding operator 56% covered pulp control operator 55% covered wash deinking operator You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from wash deinking operator, 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 wash deinking operator 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 wash deinking 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.

Required skill Area
  • separate ink working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • tend deinking tank working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • use deinking chemicals working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • concentrate pulp slurry information skills
  • deinking processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • monitor chemical process condition working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • types of pulp natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • types of paper engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • work safely with chemicals assisting and caring
  • work safely with machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a wash deinking operator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Wash deinking operator is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. 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 wash deinking 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.