rail switchperson

Job Zone

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2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5

Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed

Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.

Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.

Occupational interest profile

RCIRealistic · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order

• R Realistic6.49
• C Conventional4.46
• I Investigative2.64
• S Social1.19
• E Enterprising1.01
• A Artistic1.00

RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.

Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Signal and Track Switch Repairers (49-9097.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (19)

ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.

• apply signalling control procedures
• cooperate with colleagues
• enforce railway safety regulations
• ensure compliance with railway regulation
• execute working instructions
• follow switching instructions in rail operations
• handle stressful situations in the work place
• keep task records
• manage rail yard resources
• operate railway lever frames
• operate railway switches
• operate switching locomotives
• shunt inbound loads
• shunt outbound loads
• shunt rolling stock in marshalling yards
• signal box parts
• use handbrake
• use rigging tools
• use waterway traffic control systems