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Where a wood treater can go next

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

Wood treaters apply treatments to wood to make it resistant to environmental factors like mould, cold, moisture, or staining. Treatments may also contribute to the colour of the wood. Wood treaters may use chemicals, heat, gasses, UV light, or a combination of these to treat wood.

Also known as wood treatment operative, wood treatment operator, wood treatment specialist, wood treating machine technician, wood treating machine specialist, wood treating machine worker, wood treating machine operator, wood treatment technician, wood treatment worker.

Craft and related trades workers 38 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: wood drying kiln operator, 43%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
wood drying kiln operator 43% covered wood products assembler 39% covered wood sander 37% covered nailing machine operator 35% covered wood fuel pelletiser 34% covered wood treater You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from wood treater, 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 wood treater already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A wood treater 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
  • record wood treatment information information skills
  • move treated wood handling and moving
  • stack timber handling and moving
  • treat wood working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • wood moisture content engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • mix chemicals handling and moving
  • clean wood surface handling and moving
  • meet contract specifications communication, collaboration and creativity
  • woodworking processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • manipulate wood handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Wood treater is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 wood treater’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.