ground riggertohigh rigger
A ground rigger already meets 80% of what the high rigger role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.
This move: 25.7 of 100 · adjacent
1 Share of the high rigger role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the ground rigger profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 29 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A high rigger role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ground rigger background worth leading with.
- already held calculate rigging plots information skills
- already held design rigging plots communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held perform regular checks on rigging equipment constructing
- already held plot rigging movements constructing
- already held hang chain hoists constructing
- already held maintain chain hoists constructing
All 29 carried skills, including the 17 the high rigger role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 8 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held provide first aid required
- required, not held react to emergency situations in a live performance environment required
- required, not held write risk assessment on performing arts production required
- optional, not held document safety actions optional
- required, not held promote health and safety required
- optional, not held assemble circus rigging equipment optional
- optional, not held maintain circus rigging equipment optional
- optional, not held define rigging needs for circus acts optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a high rigger role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 promote health and safety skill · sector specific
- 02 write risk assessment on performing arts production skill · sector specific
- 03 provide first aid skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 29 skills that carry over
- already held assemble performance equipment skill
- already held assemble truss constructions skill
- already held evacuate people from heights skill
- already held follow safety procedures when working at heights skill
- already held hang chain hoists skill
- already held maintain rigging equipment skill
- already held organise resources for artistic production skill
- already held provide power distribution skill
- already held store performance equipment skill
- already held use communication equipment skill
- already held use personal protection equipment skill
- already held use rope access techniques skill
- already held use technical documentation skill
- already held work ergonomically skill
- already held work safely with machines skill
- already held work safely with mobile electrical systems under supervision skill
- already held work with respect for own safety skill
- already held calculate rigging plots skill
- already held design rigging plots skill
- already held develop professional network skill
- already held ensure safety of mobile electrical systems skill
- already held keep personal administration skill
- already held maintain chain hoists skill
- already held manage personal professional development skill
- already held manage technical resources stock skill
- already held operate forklift skill
- already held operate telehandler skill
- already held perform regular checks on rigging equipment skill
- already held plot rigging movements skill
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held assemble circus rigging equipment optional
- optional, not held define rigging needs for circus acts optional
- optional, not held document safety actions optional
- optional, not held maintain circus rigging equipment optional
1 held skills the high rigger role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role perform first fire intervention skill
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.