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Career transition

Highway Maintenance WorkersOperating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators

What it takes to move from highway maintenance workers into operating engineers and other construction equipment operators — the overlap, the gaps, and the pay change.

The transferable cut

Refit analysis ·10 of the top skills overlap between Highway Maintenance Workers and Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators — Monitoring, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Speaking, so that experience transfers directly. The main gaps to close are few. Median pay moves from $49,070 to $58,710 (+20%).

Skills that transfer

You likely already have these from highway maintenance workers.

  • Monitoring
  • Active Listening
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Active Learning
  • Learning Strategies
  • Writing
  • Mathematics
  • Science

Gaps to close

What operating engineers and other construction equipment operatorsasks for that you'll need to build.

  • No major missing skills among the top set.

Pay change

Highway Maintenance Workers
$49,070
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
$58,710

Re-angle your Highway Maintenance Workers experience toward Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators

Honest tailoring

See how your resume lines up with Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators

Refit re-angles your real experience toward this role using the skills above — and never invents skills you don't have. A no-fabrication gate checks every change before you see it.

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