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Occupation

Heavy plant maintenance technicians

Heavy plant maintenance technicians diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul mobile mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, such as tractors, cranes, bulldozers, graders and conveyors, used in agriculture, construction, logging and mining.

Based on analysing 3550 job ads this job spends 7.1% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 10 skills asked for, of which 1.4% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £32,240 - £37,050.

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.

North Eastern Scotland
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
West Central Scotland
Southern Scotland

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.

Inspect industrial equipment

Found in 61 job ads (11.0%)

Handle waste

Found in 54 job ads (9.7%)

Operate recycling processing equipment

Found in 36 job ads (6.5%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 34 job ads (6.1%)

Safety engineering

Found in 32 job ads (5.8%)

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.

Maintenance and repair

Found in 751 job ads (2.6%)

Communication, collaboration and creativity

Found in 478 job ads (1.6%)

Planning and scheduling events and activities

Found in 457 job ads (1.6%)

Monitoring, inspecting and testing equipment, systems and products

Found in 438 job ads (1.5%)

Maintaining mechanical equipment

Found in 390 job ads (1.3%)

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 machinery and equipment

Found in 701 job ads (26.4%)

Manufacture of machinery for mining, quarrying and construction

Found in 167 job ads (6.3%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 186 job ads (7.0%)

Manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery

Found in 128 job ads (4.8%)

Wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery

Found in 122 job ads (4.6%)
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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.