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Operation and Control
Needed by 213 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 5 of 16.
- Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers
- Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic
- Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service
- Medical Equipment Preparers
- Medical Equipment Repairers
- Meter Readers, Utilities
- Model Makers, Wood
- Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists
- Nurse Anesthetists
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
- Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation
- Photonics Engineers
- Photonics Technicians
- Precision Agriculture Technicians
- Print Binding and Finishing Workers
- Quality Control Systems Managers
- Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers
- Radiologists
- Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers
- Robotics Engineers
- Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers
- Semiconductor Processing Technicians
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
- Stonemasons
- Surgical Assistants
- Acute Care Nurses
- Agricultural Technicians
- Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors
- Airfield Operations Specialists
- Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers
- Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
- Critical Care Nurses
- Dental Laboratory Technicians
- Driver/Sales Workers
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- Forest and Conservation Technicians
- Foresters
- Fuel Cell Engineers
- Furniture Finishers
- Geodetic Surveyors
- Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians
- Helpers--Production Workers
- Histology Technicians
- Industrial Production Managers
- Log Graders and Scalers
- Mechanical Engineers
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- Nuclear Monitoring Technicians
- Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons
- Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators
- Quality Control Analysts
- Solar Energy Installation Managers
- Surveyors
- Team Assemblers
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.