Production Occupations

• Assemblers
  • Precision assemblers
• Blue-collar worker supervisors
• Fishing, hunting, and forestry occupations
• Fishers, hunters, and trappers
• Forestry and logging occupations
• Food processing occupations
  • Butchers and meat, poultry, and fish cutters
• Inspectors, testers, and graders
• Metalworking and plastics-working occupations
  • Boilermakers
  • Jewelers
  • Machinists and tool programmers
  • Metalworking and plastics-working machine operators
  • Tool and die makers
  • Welders, cutters, and welding machine operators
• Plant and systems operators
  • Electric power generating plant operators and power distributors and dispatchers
  • Stationary engineers
  • Water and wastewater treatment plant operators
• Printing occupations
  • Bindery workers
  • Prepress workers
  • Printing press operators
• Textile, apparel, and furnishings occupations
  • Apparel workers
  • Shoe and leather workers and repairers
  • Textile machinery operators
  • Upholsterers
• Woodworking occupations
• Miscellaneous production occupations
  • Dental laboratory technicians
  • Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
  • Painting and coating machine operators
  • Photographic process workers

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