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Civil Engineering Technicians
Average Salary:
$47,861
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military builds and repairs many airstrips, docks, barracks, roads, and other projects each year. Surveying, mapping, and drafting technicians conduct land surveys, make maps, and prepare detailed plans and drawings for construction projects. Surveys and maps are also used to locate military targets and plot troop movements.
Mapping Technicians
Average Salary:
$56,250
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Military intelligence is information needed to plan for our national defense. Knowledge of the number, location, and tactics of enemy forces and potential battle areas is needed to develop military plans. To gather information, the services rely on aerial photographs, electronic monitoring using radar and sensitive radios, and human observation. Intelligence specialists gather and study the information required to design defense plans and tactics.
Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other
Average Salary:
$49,329
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Overall responsibilities for the military and civilian categories of this career are similar, but specific tasks may vary depending on service branch.
Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
Average Salary:
$57,816
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
The services take great care to ensure safe working conditions and a clean environment. A clean, safe, and healthy environment results in happier employees and better work. Environmental health and safety officers study the air, ground, and water to identify and analyze sources of pollution and its effects. They also direct programs to control safety and health hazards in the work place.
Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
Average Salary:
$50,072
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Each military base is a small community. The health and well-being of the residents and surrounding land is a major concern of the services. Keeping military work places and living areas sanitary helps to prevent illness. Environmental health and safety specialists inspect military facilities and food supplies for the presence of disease, germs, or other conditions hazardous to health and the environment.
Construction and Related Workers, All Other
Average Salary:
$42,863
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
The military builds many temporary and permanent structures each year. Lumber, plywood, plasterboard, and concrete and masonry (bricks, stone, and concrete blocks) are the basic building materials for many of these projects. Construction specialists build and repair buildings, bridges, foundations, dams, and bunkers. They work with engineers and other building specialists as part of military construction teams.
Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
Average Salary:
$46,650
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military uses electronic instruments and equipment in many different areas, including health care, weather forecasting, and combat, to name a few. Electronics repairers maintain and repair instruments and equipment, such as computers, communications equipment, radar and sonar systems, precision measuring equipment, and biomedical instruments. Electronic instrument and equipment repairers normally specialize by type of equipment or instrument being repaired.
Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
Average Salary:
$55,804
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Much of the military's equipment is electrically powered. Electric motors, electric tools, and medical equipment require careful maintenance and repair. Electrical products repairers maintain and repair electrical equipment. They specialize by type of equipment.
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
Average Salary:
$52,453
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Much of the military's equipment is electrically powered. Electric motors, electric tools, and medical equipment require careful maintenance and repair. Electrical products repairers maintain and repair electrical equipment. They specialize by type of equipment.
Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
Average Salary:
$47,500
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Keeping automotive and heavy equipment in good working condition is vital to the success of military missions. Automotive and heavy equipment mechanics maintain and repair vehicles such as jeeps, cars, trucks, tanks, and other combat vehicles. They also repair bulldozers, power shovels, and other construction equipment.
Industrial Machinery Mechanics
Average Salary:
$43,230
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Overall responsibilities for the military and civilian categories of this career are similar, but specific tasks may vary depending on service branch.
Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
Average Salary:
$45,175
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The ability to relay information between air, sea, and ground forces is critical in the military. The military has sophisticated communications systems that use a variety of technologies and telecommunications equipment such as radios, telephones, antennas, satellites, and complex security and network devices. Communications equipment operators use these systems to transmit, receive, and decode messages at military locations throughout the world.
Medical Equipment Repairers
Average Salary:
$50,684
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Much of the military's equipment is electrically powered. Electric motors, electric tools, and medical equipment require careful maintenance and repair. Electrical products repairers maintain and repair electrical equipment. They specialize by type of equipment.
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
Average Salary:
Not Available
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military uses precision instruments and equipment to perform a variety of functions. Some precision instruments are used to measure distance, pressure, altitude, temperature, underwater depth, and other physical properties. Other types of precision equipment include photographic and imaging equipment such as cameras, projectors, and film processing equipment. All of these items have many sensitive mechanisms which require regular attention to stay in good working order. Precision instrument and equipment repairers maintain and adjust these delicate items. They may specialize by the type of equipment that they work on.
Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other
Average Salary:
$42,716
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
The military uses precision instruments and equipment to perform a variety of functions. Some precision instruments are used to measure distance, pressure, altitude, temperature, underwater depth, and other physical properties. Other types of precision equipment include photographic and imaging equipment such as cameras, projectors, and film processing equipment. All of these items have many sensitive mechanisms which require regular attention to stay in good working order. Precision instrument and equipment repairers maintain and adjust these delicate items. They may specialize by the type of equipment that they work on.
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other
Average Salary:
$44,996
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Overall responsibilities for the military and civilian categories of this career are similar, but specific tasks may vary depending on service branch.
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
Average Salary:
$52,886
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Sheet metal is used as a building material in many military construction projects. Ships, tanks, and aircraft are made of heavy metal armor. Welders and metal workers make and install sheet metal products, such as roofs, air ducts, gutters, and vents. They also make custom parts to repair the structural parts of ships, submarines, landing craft, buildings, and equipment.
Machinists
Average Salary:
$46,196
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Sometimes when engines or machines break down, the parts needed to repair them are not available. In these cases, the broken parts must be repaired or new ones made. Machinists make and repair metal parts for engines and all types of machines. They operate lathes, drill presses, grinders, and other machine shop equipment.
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
Average Salary:
$50,610
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Sheet metal is used as a building material in many military construction projects. Ships, tanks, and aircraft are made of heavy metal armor. Welders and metal workers make and install sheet metal products, such as roofs, air ducts, gutters, and vents. They also make custom parts to repair the structural parts of ships, submarines, landing craft, buildings, and equipment.
Material Moving Workers, All Other
Average Salary:
$47,516
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
The military delivers supplies, weapons, equipment, and mail to United States forces in many parts of the world. Military cargo travels by ship, truck, or airplane. It must be handled carefully to ensure safe arrival at the correct destination. Cargo specialists load and unload military supplies and material using equipment such as forklifts and cranes. They also plan and organize loading schedules.
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