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Boilermakers
Average Salary:
$56,910
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints. Work involves use of hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Assist in testing assembled vessels. Direct cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces. Inspect and repair boiler fittings, such as safety valves, regulators, automatic-control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines.
Sheet Metal Workers
Average Salary:
$42,730
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment, such as ducts, control boxes, drainpipes, and furnace casings. Work may involve any of the following: setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal; shaping metal over anvils, blocks, or forms using hammer; operating soldering and welding equipment to join sheet metal parts; or inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces. Includes sheet metal duct installers who install prefabricated sheet metal ducts used for heating, air conditioning, or other purposes.
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
Average Salary:
$35,170
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Fabricate, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products.
Computer-Controlled Machine Tool Operators, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$35,220
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Operate computer-controlled machines or robots to perform one or more machine functions on metal or plastic work pieces.
Computer Numerically Controlled Machine Tool Programmers, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$45,890
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Develop programs to control machining or processing of metal or plastic parts by automatic machine tools, equipment, or systems.
Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$32,300
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up, operate, or tend machines to extrude or draw thermoplastic or metal materials into tubes, rods, hoses, wire, bars, or structural shapes.
Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$34,410
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up, operate, or tend forging machines to taper, shape, or form metal or plastic parts.
Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$36,920
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up, operate, or tend machines to roll steel or plastic forming bends, beads, knurls, rolls, or plate or to flatten, temper, or reduce gauge of material.
Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$29,720
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal or plastic material.
Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$33,510
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up, operate, or tend drilling machines to drill, bore, ream, mill, or countersink metal or plastic work pieces.
Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$31,280
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up, operate, or tend grinding and related tools that remove excess material or burrs from surfaces, sharpen edges or corners, or buff, hone, or polish metal or plastic work pieces.
Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$36,070
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up, operate, or tend lathe and turning machines to turn, bore, thread, form, or face metal or plastic materials, such as wire, rod, or bar stock.
Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$36,140
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up, operate, or tend milling or planing machines to mill, plane, shape, groove, or profile metal or plastic work pieces.
Machinists
Average Salary:
$39,220
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up and operate a variety of machine tools to produce precision parts and instruments. Includes precision instrument makers who fabricate, modify, or repair mechanical instruments. May also fabricate and modify parts to make or repair machine tools or maintain industrial machines, applying knowledge of mechanics, mathematics, metal properties, layout, and machining procedures.
Model Makers, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$44,850
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up and operate machines, such as lathes, milling and engraving machines, and jig borers to make working models of metal or plastic objects. Includes template makers.
Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$39,950
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Lay out, machine, fit, and assemble castings and parts to metal or plastic foundry patterns, core boxes, or match plates.
Foundry Mold and Coremakers
Average Salary:
$30,790
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Make or form wax or sand cores or molds used in the production of metal castings in foundries.
Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$33,220
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Set up, operate, or tend more than one type of cutting or forming machine tool or robot.
Tool and Die Makers
Average Salary:
$46,650
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Analyze specifications, lay out metal stock, set up and operate machine tools, and fit and assemble parts to make and repair dies, cutting tools, jigs, fixtures, gauges, and machinists' hand tools.
Welders, Cutters, and Welder Fitters
Average Salary:
$35,920
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.