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Equipment Selection
Needed by 41 occupations in O*NET. O*NET rates it for 910 occupations and it counts as needed where rated 3 (important) or more of 5.
Occupations that list it
Essential first, then O*NET-rated by importance, then optional. 910 in all, page 3 of 16.
- Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Non-Destructive Testing Specialists
- Nuclear Technicians
- Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians
- Pipelayers
- Power Plant Operators
- Radiation Therapists
- Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons
- Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
- Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
- Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Telecommunications Engineering Specialists
- Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters
- Upholsterers
- Watch and Clock Repairers
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Biofuels Processing Technicians
- Chemists
- Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
- Computer Hardware Engineers
- Computer Network Support Specialists
- Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
- Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
- Fishing and Hunting Workers
- Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Helpers--Roofers
- Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining
- Media Technical Directors/Managers
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- Nanosystems Engineers
- Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
- Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators
- Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
- Print Binding and Finishing Workers
- Printing Press Operators
- Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists
- Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators
- Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders
- Sound Engineering Technicians
- Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
- Terrazzo Workers and Finishers
- Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
- Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Dental Laboratory Technicians
- Dentists, General
- Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers
- Endoscopy Technicians
- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to an occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role. O*NET importance says how much a skill matters in an occupation, from 1 to 5; it is not a proficiency level.
Often appears with
Skills most often needed alongside it, with how many occupations need both.
Importance by Job Zone
Mean O*NET importance across the occupations rated at each Job Zone.
Where it shows up
O*NET occupations that rate it important (3 or more), by occupation group.
This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. ESCO occupations and skills are from the European Commission's ESCO classification, and the occupation crosswalk is the official ESCO–O*NET mapping by the ESCO Secretariat with USDOL/ETA. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. BlissPoint Analytics has modified all or some of this information: skill, task and descriptor ratings are rounded to one decimal, and ESCO occupations show Job Zone and interests copied from a crosswalked O*NET occupation. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.