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Aerospace
Chemicals
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Machinery

Motor Vehicles
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Machinist
Metal Fabricator
Model Maker

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Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing

Firms provide onsite, job-related training to upgrade the skills of technicians, production workers, and engineers. Classes teaching computer skills and blueprint reading are common. Continue...

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Chemical Manufacturing, Except Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing

Production workers may start as laborers or in other unskilled jobs and, with experience and training, advance into better paying positions that require greater skills or have greater responsibility. Continue...

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Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

Workers with different levels of education find employment opportunities in the computer and electronic product manufacturing industry. Although assembly workers generally need only a high school diploma, assemblers in the computer and electronic product manufacturing industry may need more specialized training or experience than do workers in other manufacturing industries.

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Food Manufacturing

Most production jobs in food manufacturing require little formal education or training. Graduation from high school is preferred, but not always required. Continue...

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Machinery Manufacturing

The composition of the machinery manufacturing labor force continues to evolve as labor intensive tasks are automated, increasing the proportion of production work that requires additional skills. Continue...

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Motor Vehicle and Parts Manufacturing

Standards for new hires are higher now than in the past. Employers increasingly require at least a high school diploma as the number of unskilled jobs declines, and most motor vehicle manufacturers administer lengthy examinations when hiring assemblers. Continue...

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Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing

Training requirements for jobs in the pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing industry range from a few hours of on-the-job training to years of formal education plus job experience. For production occupations, manufacturers usually hire inexperienced workers and train them on the job; high school graduates generally are preferred. Beginners in production jobs assist experienced workers and learn to operate processing equipment. With experience, employees may advance to more skilled jobs in their departments.

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Printing

Workers enter the printing industry with various educational backgrounds. In general, job applicants must be high school graduates with mathematical, verbal, and written communication skills, and be computer literate. Continue...

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Steel Manufacturing

Many jobs in steel manufacturing require only a high school diploma. However, machinery continues to become more complex, and growing numbers of operating and maintenance positions are highly skilled, so employers increasingly prefer to hire graduates from formal postsecondary technical and trade schools. Continue...

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Sample Occupations


Machinist

Machinist

What you'll be doing all day: Basically, you'll be making things with metal. Lathes, milling machines, shapers, and grinders will all be part of your daily work. You'll run computer-controlled machining tools that are accurate down to a few micrometers. And you'll work with finish tools to perfect each piece you've made.

When you're working with this much metal, you'll become familiar with different types of material. And you'll be in charge of metalworking projects from planning and fabrication through assembly, inspection, and testing, using knowledge of machine functions, metal properties and mathematics.

What someone with a little experience makes (roughly): $32,600

What type of education you'll need: On the Job Training

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Metal Fabricator

What you'll be doing all day: Remember how you never thought you'd use trigonometry after high school? Here's where you're proven wrong. Take some trig, a vast knowledge of metal, and some good old hands-on work, and the next thing you know, you're fabricating and assembling structural metal products.

Cutting, hammering, welding, bending, shearing, pressing-if you can do it to metal, you will. Of course this job is more than power tools and brute force. In addition to the previously mentioned trig, you'll need to be able to read and draw up blueprints, test specifications, and more.

What someone with a little experience makes (roughly): $28,600

What type of education you'll need: On the Job Training

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manufacturing, visit our partner site, DreamIt-DoIt.

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Model Maker

What you'll be doing all day: Remember building scale models and carving stuff out of clay when you were a kid? Well, now you'll get paid to do it for real. No joke. Does this sound like a great job or what?

Maybe you'll be sculpting a full-scale model of a futuristic car. Or maybe something smaller-like the next superhero action figure? You'll be making molds for anything from candles and bobbleheads to silverware and candy bars. Artistic talent and en eye for detail are a must with this job.

What someone with a little experience makes (roughly): $24,700

What type of education you'll need: On the Job Training, Apprenticeship

To learn more about this and other jobs in advanced
manufacturing, visit our partner site, DreamIt-DoIt.

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(Source: Manufacturing Institute)

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