3.5ModerateShortage
Sheetmetal Trades Workers
Automotive and Engineering Trades Workers · Fabrication Engineering Trades Workers
AI exposure measures how much this occupation's tasks may change. It is not the probability that the job will disappear.
Personalise this result for the work you actually do →Moderate Risk
Median Weekly Pay
N/A
Full-time workers
Employment
4,100
Total workers
10yr Growth
+10.5%
Projected to 2035
Shortage Status
Shortage
JSA Official AI Exposure
Automation25.0%
Augmentation58.0%
Key Tasks
- •Studying blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine job, material and equipment requirements
- •Selecting metal stock, such as stainless steel, galvanised iron, mild steel, aluminium and copper, and checking sizes, gauges and other dimensions of metal stock against specifications
- •Marking out metal stock with reference points and lines, using templates, gauges and other measuring instruments
- •Cutting metal stock along guidelines using hand and power shears, guillotines and drills
- •Shaping and forming cut metal stock into products using folding and bending machines, rollers, presses and hammers
- •Fitting and assembling components into final products by welding, riveting, soldering, brazing and otherwise joining
- •Finishing products by polishing, filing, sanding and cleaning assembled products
- •May repair damaged sheetmetal products and components
- •May specialise in fabrication, or on-site assembly and installation, of sheetmetal products
- •May produce aircraft sheet metal components requiring advanced drawing and calculating skills
- •May specialise in decorative copperwork
Employment Projections to 2035
Median Age
28
Female Share
6.0%
Part-Time Share
0.0%
Skill Level
3 / 5