Where a tool and die maker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a tool and die maker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Tool and die makers operate a variety of equipment and machinery designed to create metal tools and dies, which are both needed in several areas of manufacturing, and produce these tools in all steps of the production process. They design the tools and dies, then cut and shape them to size and finish them by manually operated machine tools, power tools, hand tools, or programming and tending CNC tool and die making machines.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 73%
- Destinations
- 5each with a full record
- Within reach
- 5difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 54required or supplementary
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tool and die maker 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 tool and die maker 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.