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Plumber — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters · Boilermakers · Pipelayers · Maintenance and Repair Workers, General · Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners · Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door · Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers · Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
In the official classification#
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
Fit with this page: broader than this page
Job Zone 3: medium preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 47-2152.00 (Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- TroubleshootingImportant
- RepairingImportant
- Judgment and Decision MakingImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- Operations MonitoringImportant
- Operation and ControlImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
Knowledge
- Building and ConstructionVery important
- MechanicalVery important
- DesignVery important
- MathematicsVery important
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- Administration and ManagementImportant
Work activities
- Getting InformationVery important
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and EventsVery important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsVery important
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or MaterialsVery important
- Performing General Physical ActivitiesVery important
- Handling and Moving ObjectsVery important
Abilities
- Problem SensitivityVery important
- Finger DexterityVery important
- Near VisionVery important
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
- Manual DexterityVery important
- Inductive ReasoningImportant
Essential skills
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- MonitoringImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
- Active ListeningImportant
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 6 task judgements are for: 2 backed by a verified event, 4 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.