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Occupation

Metal fabricators and finishers

Metal fabricators manufacture anything that can be fabricated out of metal for products such as architectural structures, vehicles and household appliances. Metal finishers grind, file, or sand surfaces of metal items, for example automobile bodies and household appliances, using hand tools and power tools.

Based on analysing 1399 job ads this job spends 8.4% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 9 skills asked for, of which 1.4% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £26,000 - £30,000.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

Northumberland and Tyne and Wear
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Essex
Tees Valley and Durham
Kent

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Implement environmental protection measures

Found in 59 job ads (32.8%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 22 job ads (12.2%)

Follow health and safety procedures in construction

Found in 18 job ads (10.0%)

Perform cleaning activities in an environmentally friendly way

Found in 16 job ads (8.9%)

Safety engineering

Found in 13 job ads (7.2%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Read engineering drawings

Found in 401 job ads (3.7%)

Mechanics and metal trades

Found in 232 job ads (2.1%)

Use hand tools

Found in 190 job ads (1.7%)

Attend to detail

Found in 175 job ads (1.6%)

Shape sheet metal objects

Found in 160 job ads (1.5%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment

Found in 120 job ads (12.3%)

Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures

Found in 79 job ads (8.1%)

Manufacture of basic metals

Found in 63 job ads (6.4%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 69 job ads (7.1%)

Forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy

Found in 42 job ads (4.3%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.