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Manufacturing
Lay out, build, test, troubleshoot, repair, and modify developmental and production electronic components, parts, equipment, and systems, such as computer equipment, missile control instrumentation, electron tubes, test equipment, and machine tool...
Associate's Degree
$61,000
Test or modify developmental or operational electrical machinery or electrical control equipment and circuitry in industrial or commercial plants or laboratories. Usually work under direction of engineers or technologists.
Certificate
$61,000
Apply theory and principles of mechanical engineering to modify, develop, test, or calibrate machinery and equipment under direction of engineering staff or physical scientists.
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,000
Coordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials within or between departments of an establishment according to production schedule. Duties include reviewing and distributing production, work, and shipment schedules; conferring with...
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,000
Weigh, measure, and check materials, supplies, and equipment for the purpose of keeping relevant records. Duties are primarily clerical by nature. Includes workers who collect and keep record of samples of products or materials.
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,000
Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of mechanics, installers, and repairers.
High school diploma or equivalent
$60,000
Install, program, maintain, or repair security or fire alarm wiring and equipment. Ensure that work is in accordance with relevant codes.
Certificate
$41,000
Repair, install, adjust, or maintain industrial production and processing machinery or refinery and pipeline distribution systems.
Certificate
$49,000
Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of an establishment in repair. Duties may involve pipe fitting; boiler making; insulating; welding;...
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,000
Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers, such as inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators.
High school diploma or equivalent
$55,000
Set up and operate equipment that mixes or blends ingredients used in the manufacturing of food products. Includes candy makers and cheese makers.
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,000
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...
Certificate
$39,000
Set up, operate, or tend more than one type of cutting or forming machine tool or robot.
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,000
Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.
Certificate
$37,000
Braze or solder together components to assemble fabricated metal parts, using soldering iron, torch, or welding machine and flux.
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,000
Operate or tend equipment to control chemical changes or reactions in the processing of industrial or consumer products. Equipment used includes devulcanizers, steam-jacketed kettles, and reactor vessels.
High school diploma or equivalent
$54,000
Set up, operate, or tend continuous flow or vat-type equipment; filter presses; shaker screens; centrifuges; condenser tubes; precipitating, fermenting, or evaporating tanks; scrubbing towers; or batch stills. These machines extract, sort, or...
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,000
Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,000
Operate or tend machines to prepare industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment. Includes cannery workers who pack food products.
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,000
Set up, operate, or tend machines to coat or paint any of a wide variety of products, including glassware, cloth, ceramics, metal, plastic, paper, or wood, with lacquer, silver, copper, rubber, varnish, glaze, enamel, oil, or rust-proofing materials.
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,000
Operate or tend painting machines to paint surfaces of transportation equipment, such as automobiles, buses, trucks, trains, boats, and airplanes. Includes painters in auto body repair facilities.
Certificate
$45,000
Develop programs to control machining or processing of metal or plastic parts by automatic machine tools, equipment, or systems.
Certificate
$43,000