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The most researched job profiles have been identified in 6 countries. For every profile, the related skills have been listed.

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NAME OF THE JOB PROFILE:
Mechanics and assemblers of industrial machinery and similar
Description of the job profile
Workers included in this group build handcrafted machinery, industrial plants or their parts, ensure their maintenance and repair, in the workshop or on the plants themselves
Economical sector
Secondary
Country
Italy
Qualifications required
- Tecnico delle operazioni di riparazione e manutenzione di macchinari e impianti meccanici ed elettrici (Tecnical in repairs and managing mechanics and electricity stuff)
Total number of training hours
600
Knowledge
Knowledge Description Level
Customer care Knowledge of the principles and procedures to provide services to customer and people. Includes the evaluation of customer needs, achieve the standard of quality and evaluation of customer satisfaction. Level 3
Engineering Knowledge of engineering sciences application and technology. Understanding of how to apply principles, techniques and procedures to design and produce goods and services. Level 3
Knowledge of materials/goods and techniques/procedures Knowledge of machines and equipments, including their design, use, repair and maintenance. Level 3
Knowledge of materials/goods and techniques/procedures Features of a mechanic’s workshop: tools, technologies, methods of work and production. Level 3
Management Theory and techniques ruling companies; strategic plannig, allocation of human, financial and physical resources, production methods, control and coordination of resources. Level 3
Sciences and Mathematics Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. Level 3
Skills
Skill Description Level
Analytical thinking To understand causes of operating errors and decide how to solve them. Level 3
Communication skills To pay full attention to what people say, focusing on the essential in order to ask question in appropriate ways, avoiding interruptions. Level 3
Customer care Recommend solutions to customer in relation to the needs expressed. Level 3
Computer Skills To understand data and technical files as a check-up result Level 3
Managing safety rules To recognize and prevent risks for personal and work environment security. Level 3
Using of technical tools To identify tools and machine tools (conventional, computer numerical control ect.) to be used for different processing steps. Level 3
Maintaining-Constracting structures To repair parts or components of machines or industrial plants. Level 3
Maintaining-Constracting structures To perform routine maintenance on equipments and determine when and what kind of maintenance is needed. Level 3
Maintaining-Constracting structures To carry out ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of equipments or facilities (clean machinery and equipment, etc.). Level 3
Competences
Competence Description Level
Maintaining of equipment Repair of machinery by using the appropriate equipment. Level 3
Maintaining of equipment Implementation of controls and/or revisions of parts or components of machinery or industrial plants to test their functionality. Level 3
Organisational competences Workspace management. Level 3
Specific competences Processing units in the engineering area. Level 3
Using of technical tools Installation, assembly and/or disassembly of parts or mechanical components. Level 3
Previous Experience
Curricular and extracurricular internship in related economic sector.
Personal Attitude
- Attitude to understand that something is wrong or that it will go wrong (this refers to the attitude to recognize problems not to solve them).
- Attitude to quickly and repeatedly adjust controls of a machine or a vehicle on the exact position.
- Attitude to read and understand information and ideas submitted in a written form.
- Attitude to listen and understand information and ideas submitted in oral form.
- Attitude to keep information in mind (words, numbers, images, procedure etc).

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