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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 2615 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 2.0% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £32,000 - £36,000.

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.

North Eastern Scotland
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Southern Scotland
West Central 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 58 job ads (15.9%)

Handle waste

Found in 31 job ads (8.5%)

Safety engineering

Found in 23 job ads (6.3%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 20 job ads (5.5%)

Implement environmental protection measures

Found in 18 job ads (4.9%)

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 486 job ads (3.8%)

Operate cranes

Found in 310 job ads (2.4%)

Communication

Found in 255 job ads (2.0%)

Maintain crane equipment

Found in 221 job ads (1.7%)

Troubleshoot

Found in 216 job ads (1.7%)

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 505 job ads (25.3%)

Manufacture of machinery for mining, quarrying and construction

Found in 151 job ads (7.6%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 128 job ads (6.4%)

Manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery

Found in 113 job ads (5.7%)

Wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery

Found in 88 job ads (4.4%)
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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.