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Occupation

Routine inspectors and testers

Routine inspectors and testers inspect and/or test metal stock, parts and products, electrical plant, machinery and electronic components, systems and sub-assemblies, textiles, wood, paper, food, plastics and rubber goods, parts and materials to detect processing, manufacturing and other defects.

Based on analysing 12587 job ads this job spends 0.9% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 14 skills asked for, of which 0.7% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £29,250 - £33,000.

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.

Tees Valley and Durham
North Eastern Scotland
Northern Ireland
Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Lincolnshire

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 156 job ads (11.3%)

Inspect industrial equipment

Found in 150 job ads (10.8%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 136 job ads (9.8%)

Safety engineering

Found in 84 job ads (6.1%)

Environmental engineering

Found in 63 job ads (4.5%)

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.

Monitoring, inspecting and testing equipment, systems and products

Found in 3991 job ads (2.6%)

Communication

Found in 2555 job ads (1.6%)

Complying with legal and organisational guidelines

Found in 2102 job ads (1.3%)

Attend to detail

Found in 1919 job ads (1.2%)

Developing operational policies and procedures

Found in 1742 job ads (1.1%)

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 1045 job ads (12.4%)

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 399 job ads (4.7%)

Specialised construction activities

Found in 423 job ads (5.0%)

Repair of electrical equipment

Found in 340 job ads (4.0%)

Repair and installation of machinery and equipment

Found in 353 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.