Where a laser cutting machine operator can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a laser cutting machine operator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Laser cutting machine operators set up, program and tend laser cutting machines, designed to cut, or rather burn off and melt, excess material from a metal workpiece by directing a computer-motion-controlled powerful laser beam through laser optics. They read laser cutting machine blueprints and tooling instructions, perform regular machine maintenance, and make adjustments to the milling controls, such as the intensity of the laser beam and its positioning.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 79%
- Destinations
- 5each with a full record
- Within reach
- 5difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 64required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
- laser marking machine operator 79% covered · difficulty 23.9
- boring machine operator 78% covered · difficulty 26.1
- oxy fuel burning machine operator 78% covered · difficulty 25.8
- straightening machine operator 76% covered · difficulty 29.1
- spark erosion machine operator 76% covered · difficulty 29.4
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laser cutting 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
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a laser cutting machine operator already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.