Where a wood boring machine operator can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a wood boring machine operator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Wood boring machine operators use milling machines or specialise boring jigs to cut holes in wood workpieces. Wood boring differs from routing mainly in that the main movement is into the workpiece as opposed to across its surface.
Also known as wood drilling machine technician, wood boring worker, wood boring machine worker, wood boring machine setter, wood boring machine tender, wood boring machine technician, wood boring machine operative, wood boring technician, wood borer, wood boring machine specialist, wood boring mill operator, wood drilling machine operator.
Craft and related trades workers 41 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: nailing machine operator, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A wood boring machine operator needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- types of boring heads engineering, manufacturing and construction
- types of drill bits engineering, manufacturing and construction
- tend boring machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
- manipulate wood handling and moving
- dispose of cutting waste material handling and moving
- ensure conformity to specifications assisting and caring
- supply machine with appropriate tools handling and moving
- types of wood engineering, manufacturing and construction
- remove inadequate workpieces handling and moving
- remove processed workpiece handling and moving
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a wood boring machine operator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- wood router operator 75% covered · difficulty 28.1
- planer thicknesser operator 71% covered · difficulty 32.6
- table saw operator 69% covered · difficulty 34.3
- sawmill operator 64% covered · difficulty 40
- band saw operator 61% covered · difficulty 41.6
- wood pallet maker 60% covered · difficulty 43.9
- router operator 58% covered · difficulty 44.8
- edge bander operator 53% covered · difficulty 49.5
- engineered wood board machine operator 53% covered · difficulty 49.9
- nailing machine operator 53% covered · difficulty 49.8
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Wood boring machine operator is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 wood boring 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.