From heating and ventilation service installer to heating technician
15 of the 26 essential skills of a heating technician are already essential for a heating and ventilation service installer — about 58% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 15
- skills carry over
- 11
- would be new
- 58%
- of the target job covered
- 26
- essential skills of a heating technician
What a heating technician does
Heating technicians install and maintain gas, electric, oil, solid-fuel and multiple fuel heating and ventilation equipment as stand-alone heating and ventilation systems or build into machinery and transport equipment. They follow instructions and blueprints, perform maintenance on systems, perform safety checks and repair the systems.
What carries over
15 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- conduct routine machinery checks
- consult technical resources
- domestic cooling systems
- electric heating systems
- install heating furnace
- install heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration ducts
- operate soldering equipment
- operate welding equipment
- perform maintenance on installed equipment
- perform test run
- record test data
- resolve equipment malfunctions
- thermodynamics
- use measurement instruments
- use testing equipment
What would be new
11 skillsEssential for a heating technician and not for a heating and ventilation service installer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- combined heat and power generation
- design an electric heating system
- design heating and cooling emission systems
- fuel gas
- install radiators
- integrate biogas energy in buildings
- perform a feasibility study on electric heating
- perform a feasibility study on heat pumps
- read standard blueprints
- types of fuels
- types of heat pumps
Other moves from heating and ventilation service installer
2 roles- refrigeration air condition and heat pump technician23 skills in common
- lift technician12 skills in common
← heating and ventilation service installerheating technician →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a heating technician?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.