Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a weaving machine operator can go next

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

Weaving machine operators set up, operate and monitor weaving machines .They work with specialised machinery, techniques and materials to process threads of yarn into weaved products such as clothing, home-tex or technical end products. They maintain and repair weaving machinery and ensure operations run without problems.

Also known as weaving tender, weaving machinist, weaving loom operator, weaver apprentice.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 25 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: weaving machine supervisor, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
weaving machine supervisor 75% covered tufting operator 72% covered carpet weaver 54% covered knitting machine operator 51% covered knitter 51% covered weaving machine operator You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from weaving machine 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 weaving machine 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 weaving machine operator needs 11 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
  • manufacture textile floor coverings working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • tend weaving machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • types of textile fibres engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • textile products, textile semi-finished products and raw materials engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • manufacture woven fabrics working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • use weaving machine technologies working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • health and safety in the textile industry services
  • evaluate textile characteristics information skills
  • maintain work standards information skills
  • control textile process management skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Weaving machine operator is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a weaving 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.