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Environmental Scan 2017: Human Capital Issues within the Medical Devices Sector More than half of the full time jobs within the surgical/medical gloves segment are for job category stationary plant and machine operators, followed by science and engineering associate professionals 23% and assemblers 10%. The workforce in other medical consumables segment is mainly made up of semi- / low skilled workers, with 25% of the full time employees working as stationary plant and machine operators, 25% as assemblers and 21% as manufacturing and transport labourers. In the non-consumables segment, 21% of the full time employees are assemblers, followed by stationary plant and machine operators 19% and science and engineering associate professionals 14%. This segment tends to hire more skilled workers (39%) as compared to the other two medical consumables segments (21%-27%). Figure 3-7: Breakdown of full time employees by job category (MASCO 2013, 2-digit), Dec 2016 (n=68, representing 19,951 employees) Others, 10% 83. Drivers and mobile plant operators, 3%    Skilled:4% Semi-skilled: 5% Low skilled: 1% 24. Business and