Career path

Chemical Products Plant and Machine Operators

The skills this job asks for, and the level for each.

Skills for this career path

397 skills listed by ESCO, 232 of them essential. 397 are in our skills list and linked; we measure a match on those. ESCO gives no levels, so we ask for level 3 on an essential skill and 2 on the rest.

Essential · Skills (198)

Essential · Knowledge (34)

Show the 165 optional skills

Optional · Skills (132)

Occupation: ISCO-08 occupations (International Labour Organization). Skills: This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission (v1.2.1, CC BY 4.0), modified by CareersMatch.

What the “Chemical Products Plant and Machine Operators” career path asks for

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Skills

Showing 10 of 397, essentials first. The table below lists them all.

Skills this job asks for

Skills asked for404

Essential232

Occupation codeisco08:8131

SourceISCO-08 (ILO) unit groups with ESCO v1.2.1 skills (European Commission, CC BY 4.0), modified by CareersMatch; built 2026-09-24

Skills for Chemical Products Plant and Machine Operators
Skill	Type	Necessity	Level
add colour	skill	essential	3
add paint hardeners	skill	essential	3

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