Compare A Solar Energy Installation Manager ↔ B Operations Manager (Electrical Contractor)

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Gates on this route

Move 1, to Electrical Foreman: experience: over 10 years (O*NET, most common).
Move 2, to Operations Manager (Electrical Contractor): license depends on the work (No license for this job title at TDLR; the employer needs a TDLR Electrical Contractor license with a Master Electrician of record. Doing electrical work yourself needs your own TDLR license).

Move 1 Transfer move to the side
Solar Energy Installation Manager to Electrical Foreman
- O*NET lists First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers as a related occupation (Primary-Short); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.87.
- Gates: experience: over 10 years (O*NET, most common).
Move 2 Transfer move to the side
Electrical Foreman to Operations Manager (Electrical Contractor)
- O*NET lists General and Operations Managers as a related occupation (Supplemental); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.79.
- Gates: license depends on the work (No license for this job title at TDLR; the employer needs a TDLR Electrical Contractor license with a Master Electrician of record. Doing electrical work yourself needs your own TDLR license).
- Skills to build: Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Social Perceptiveness

Side by side

All General and Operations Managers: Texas median $103,230, $28,710 more a year than all Solar Energy Installation Managers ($74,520), every experience level.

More than 40 hours a week: Operations Manager (Electrical Contractor) 70%, Solar Energy Installation Manager 62%.

Occupation-wide pay all experience levels, not this level's pay; Texas median, base pay, $0 to $300k

$74,520+$28,710$103,230

Gates on the route: Electrical Foreman: experience: over 10 years (O*NET, most common); Operations Manager (Electrical Contractor): license depends on the work (No license for this job title at TDLR; the employer needs a TDLR Electrical Contractor license with a Master Electrician of record. Doing electrical work yourself needs your own TDLR license).

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A +10.0% Texas, 8,780 openings a year

B +14.5% Texas, 43,030 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

62%+8 pts70%

Physical load our index from O*NET, 1 to 5; A B; largest differences first

3.3 / 5-1.51.8 / 5

High places-2.60High places: A 3.91, B 1.31
Hazardous conditions-2.39Hazardous conditions: A 3.73, B 1.34
Hazardous equipment-2.00Hazardous equipment: A 3.36, B 1.36
Very hot or cold-1.74Very hot or cold: A 4.07, B 2.33
Cramped space-1.72Cramped space: A 2.91, B 1.19

Degree

A Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 6% do).

B Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 28% do).

License

A No license for this solar supervision title at TDLR; the installing company needs a TDLR Electrical Contractor license, and anyone doing the PV wiring needs a TDLR electrician license.

B No license for this job title at TDLR; the employer needs a TDLR Electrical Contractor license with a Master Electrician of record. Doing electrical work yourself needs your own TDLR license.

Experience

A Most common related work experience: over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (O*NET: 26%).

B Most common related work experience: over 4 years, up to and including 6 years (O*NET: 24%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 6

Monitoring
Coordination
Management of Personnel Resources
Persuasion
Time Management
Service Orientation

To build: 5

Social Perceptiveness +0.63
Active Learning +0.62
Active Listening +0.50
Complex Problem Solving +0.50
Writing +0.50

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Save Solar Energy Installation Manager to Operations Manager (Electrical Contractor) as your goal. Each step then shows the hours you have logged toward it, your exam practice and your license, with the one thing to do next and the 5 skills to build as a checklist. Free with an account.