metrology technician

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 Realistic6.30
• C Conventional5.59
• I Investigative4.13
• S Social1.56
• A Artistic1.12
• E Enterprising1.00

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 Calibration Technologists and Technicians (17-3028.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (17)

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.

• analyse test data
• calibrate precision instrument
• contact scientists
• create solutions to problems
• instrumentation engineering
• maintain technical equipment
• metrology
• operate precision measuring equipment
• operate scientific measuring equipment
• order equipment
• perform test run
• quality standards
• read standard blueprints
• troubleshoot
• use testing equipment
• write calibration report
• write technical reports