sewerage maintenance techniciantopipeline maintenance worker
A sewerage maintenance technician already meets 45% of what the pipeline maintenance worker role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.
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1 Share of the pipeline maintenance worker role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the sewerage maintenance technician 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.
Why this move works
A pipeline maintenance worker role treats 7 of its required skills as things a sewerage maintenance technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- ensure regulatory compliance in pipeline infrastructures
- inspect pipelines
- maintain pipeline coating properties
- pipeline coating properties
- prevent pipeline deterioration
- test pipeline infrastructure operations
What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 12 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A pipeline maintenance worker role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a sewerage maintenance technician background worth leading with.
- already held monitor storage vessels used to transport goods via pipeline information skills
- already held maintain pipeline coating properties working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held follow up pipeline integrity management priorities management skills
- already held assemble manufactured pipeline parts constructing
- already held pipeline coating properties engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held prevent pipeline deterioration constructing
All 12 carried skills, including the 7 the pipeline maintenance worker role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 12 missing skills fall into 7 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 cooperate with colleagues required
- required, not held follow verbal instructions required
- required, not held follow written instructions required
- required, not held operate soldering equipment required
- required, not held operate welding equipment required
- required, not held use rigging equipment required
- required, not held maintain equipment required
- required, not held apply health and safety standards required
- optional, not held comply with pipeline transport regulations optional
- required, not held handle chemicals required
- required, not held measure parts of manufactured products required
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a pipeline maintenance worker role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 measure parts of manufactured products skill · sector specific
- 02 use rigging equipment skill · sector specific
- 03 apply health and safety standards 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 12 skills that carry over
- already held ensure regulatory compliance in pipeline infrastructures skill
- already held inspect pipelines skill
- already held maintain pipeline coating properties skill
- already held pipeline coating properties knowledge
- already held prevent pipeline deterioration skill
- already held test pipeline infrastructure operations skill
- already held use personal protection equipment skill
- already held assemble manufactured pipeline parts skill
- already held detect flaws in pipeline infrastructure skill
- already held follow up pipeline integrity management priorities skill
- already held monitor storage vessels used to transport goods via pipeline skill
- already held types of pipelines knowledge
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held security requirements of goods transported via pipelines optional
2 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held comply with pipeline transport regulations optional
- optional, not held security requirements of goods transported via pipelines optional
29 held skills the pipeline maintenance worker role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role assemble video tape footage skill
- not needed by the target role carry out cleaning of road drains skill
- not needed by the target role clear pipelines skill
- not needed by the target role develop material testing procedures skill
- not needed by the target role dispose of sewage sludge skill
- not needed by the target role examine civil structures skill
- not needed by the target role follow health and safety procedures in construction skill
- not needed by the target role inspect sewers skill
- not needed by the target role keep records of work progress skill
- not needed by the target role maintain records of maintenance interventions skill
- not needed by the target role maintain septic tanks skill
- not needed by the target role maintain test equipment skill
- not needed by the target role mitigate environmental impact of pipeline projects skill
- not needed by the target role non-destructive testing knowledge
- not needed by the target role operate GPS systems skill
- not needed by the target role perform follow-up on pipeline route services skill
- not needed by the target role prevent damage to utility infrastructure skill
- not needed by the target role recognise signs of corrosion skill
- not needed by the target role record test data skill
- not needed by the target role repair pipelines skill
- not needed by the target role report test findings skill
- not needed by the target role secure working area skill
- not needed by the target role set management priorities in pipeline networks skill
- not needed by the target role supervise sewerage systems construction skill
- not needed by the target role test sensors skill
- not needed by the target role use non-destructive testing equipment skill
- not needed by the target role use pipeline video equipment skill
- not needed by the target role use testing equipment skill
- not needed by the target role work in a construction team skill
1 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held security requirements of goods transported via pipelines optional
Other moves recorded from sewerage maintenance technician
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.