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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 1013 job ads this job spends 8.4% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 8 skills asked for, of which 2.3% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £25,000 - £29,000.

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
Kent
Tees Valley and Durham

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 36 job ads (31.3%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 14 job ads (12.2%)

Perform cleaning activities in an environmentally friendly way

Found in 13 job ads (11.3%)

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 242 job ads (5.4%)

Shape sheet metal objects

Found in 138 job ads (3.1%)

Attend to detail

Found in 116 job ads (2.6%)

Welding techniques

Found in 107 job ads (2.4%)

Health and safety regulations

Found in 98 job ads (2.2%)

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 90 job ads (12.5%)

Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures

Found in 55 job ads (7.6%)

Manufacture of basic metals

Found in 50 job ads (6.9%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 48 job ads (6.6%)

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

Found in 30 job ads (4.2%)
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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.