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Occupation

Calibration and precision instrument technicians

Calibration and precision instrument technicians make instruments such as micrometers, gauges, microscopes and pedometers. They service, calibrate and develop testing procedures and ensure that equipment meets requirements for precision, performance and accuracy.

Based on analysing 1073 job ads this job spends 0.0% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 14 skills asked for, of which 0.8% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £28,000 - £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.

North Eastern Scotland
Tees Valley and Durham
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
West Wales and The Valleys

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.

Lean manufacturing

Found in 15 job ads (16.3%)

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.

Develop calibration procedures

Found in 626 job ads (7.9%)

Adjust manufacturing equipment

Found in 225 job ads (2.8%)

Communication

Found in 186 job ads (2.3%)

Use spreadsheets software

Found in 159 job ads (2.0%)

Attend to detail

Found in 138 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 instruments and appliances for measuring, testing and navigation

Found in 111 job ads (15.9%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 91 job ads (13.1%)

Manufacture of non-electronic instruments and appliances for measuring, testing and navigation, except industrial process control equipment

Found in 52 job ads (7.5%)

Manufacture of electronic instruments and appliances for measuring, testing, and navigation, except industrial process control equipment

Found in 44 job ads (6.3%)

Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Found in 41 job ads (5.9%)
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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.