Jobs Similar to Refractory Materials Repairers
Also called: Refractory Materials Repairers
The careers below use the most similar skills, knowledge and work activities to refractory materials repairers, according to O*NET 31.0. The closest are Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood, Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators and Riggers.
Refractory Materials Repairers: $61,290 median pay · usual preparation: High school.
Updated October 2026 · Data: O*NET 31.0 and BLS OEWS May 2025 · How we match careers
The 20 most similar careers
- 1Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
81% similar · $42,770 (−30%) · High school
- 2Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
81% similar · $57,430 (−6%) · High school
- 3Riggers
80% similar · $62,640 (+2%) · High school · Same group
- 4Continuous Mining Machine Operators
80% similar · $61,810 (+1%) · High school
- 5Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
80% similar · $51,330 (−16%) · High school
- 6Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
80% similar · $46,330 (−24%) · High school
- 7Roustabouts, Oil and Gas
80% similar · $46,960 (−23%) · High school
- 8Helpers--Extraction Workers
80% similar · $47,730 (−22%) · High school
- 9Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
80% similar · $42,660 (−30%) · High school
- 10Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
80% similar · $53,710 (−12%) · High school
- 11Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators
80% similar · $70,070 (+14%) · High school
- 12Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
80% similar · $47,550 (−22%) · High school
- 13Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
80% similar · $48,250 (−21%) · High school
- 14Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
79% similar · $44,350 (−28%) · High school
- 15Automotive Body and Related Repairers
79% similar · $54,890 (−10%) · High school
- 16Fallers
79% similar · $52,100 (−15%) · High school
- 17Pile Driver Operators
79% similar · $73,300 (+20%) · High school
- 18Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
79% similar · $43,380 (−29%) · High school
- 19Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
79% similar · $54,430 (−11%) · High school
- 20Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining
79% similar · $74,500 (+22%) · High school
Similarity: weighted correlation of O*NET 31.0 transferable skills (35%), knowledge (25%), work activities (15%) and interests (15%). Pay and schooling do not change it. Pay change compares BLS May 2025 national medians; careers with only a broader BLS group wage are not compared. “Same group”: the same BLS occupation group (SOC minor group). Methodology
Similar jobs that pay more
Only careers that usually need no more preparation than refractory materials repairers.
- Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining79% similar · $74,500 (+22%)
- Pile Driver Operators79% similar · $73,300 (+20%)
- Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators80% similar · $70,070 (+14%)
- Riggers80% similar · $62,640 (+2%)
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators80% similar · $61,810 (+1%)
Thinking of a career change?
Similar is not the same as a good next step. Our career-change list for refractory materials repairers also weighs pay drops and extra schooling, and puts jobs outside the field first.
Jobs that can lead here
Careers where refractory materials repairers is one of the best career-change matches (match score in brackets).
- Foundry Mold and Coremakers (87)
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters (87)
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons (84)
- Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders (83)
- Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic (82)
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic (82)
- Pourers and Casters, Metal (82)
- Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining (81)
- Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood (81)
- Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders (80)
Questions about jobs like refractory materials repairers
What jobs are most similar to refractory materials repairers?
By O*NET 31.0 data, the closest are Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood (81% similar), Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators (81% similar), Riggers (80% similar), Continuous Mining Machine Operators (80% similar) and Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters (80% similar).
Which jobs like refractory materials repairers pay more?
Among the 20 most similar careers, Loading and Moving Machine Operators ($74,500, +22%; usually a high school diploma), Pile Driver Operators ($73,300, +20%; usually a high school diploma) and Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators ($70,070, +14%; usually a high school diploma) have the highest BLS median pay compared with refractory materials repairers ($61,290). Without more preparation than refractory materials repairers usually need: Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Pile Driver Operators and Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators.
How is the similarity percentage worked out?
We compare how important each transferable skill, knowledge area, work activity and interest area is in both jobs (O*NET 31.0 ratings) with a weighted correlation. 100% would mean the same profile. Unlike our career-change matches, pay and extra schooling do not lower the similarity on this page.