Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
Education
Required Level of Education
- High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) = 68.49%
- Less than a High School Diploma = 13.84%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 13.21%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades) = 4.06%
- First Professional Degree - awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession = 0.39%
Related Work Experience
- None = 58.53%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 15.84%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 13.21%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 5.16%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 3.44%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 2.31%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 1.11%
- Up to and including 1 month = 0.39%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Up to and including 1 month = 31.22%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 21.93%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 13.88%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 13.21%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 13.21%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 3.73%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 2.31%
- None = 0.50%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 29.39%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 27.06%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 25.12%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 10.93%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 5.19%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 2.31%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™ 16.0.



