4.1ModerateNo Shortage
Engineering Production Workers
Machine and Stationary Plant Operators · Stationary Plant Operators
Moderate Risk
Median Weekly Pay
$1,400
Full-time workers
Employment
22,100
Total workers
10yr Growth
+5.3%
Projected to 2034
Shortage Status
No Shortage
JSA Official AI Exposure
Automation31.0%
Augmentation63.0%
Key Tasks
- •Interpreting engineering production drawings
- •Setting up, operating and adjusting production plant to shape metal stock and castings and cut sheet metal
- •Operating welding and electroplating plant
- •Operating furnaces and quenching plant to smelt and change the structure of metals
- •Using kilns and ovens to fire ceramics
- •Processing mineral ore and operating metal rolling plant
- •Casting molten metal and operating plant to draw metal wire through dies
- •Operating computer-controlled production plant
Employment Projections to 2034
Median Age
43
Female Share
3.0%
Part-Time Share
5.0%
Skill Level
4 / 5