Production
Find detailed information about careers in the Production industry
Are you interested in getting a rewarding, secure career in manufacturing or production? Below, you’ll find a comprehensive list of detailed descriptions of professions with the Production industry, from bakers to bookbinders to photographic process workers, and all the way nuclear power reactor operators.
There is, of course, an enormous variety of available production and manufacturing careers. A glance at the production and manufacturing career fields listed below shows the large variety of career choices available within the various Production fields; if you select from any of them, you'll connect to clear, detailed information on the job opportunities and responsibilities within that discipline.
Within Production & Manufacturing, the career outlook is strongest for those professionals who choose to specialize. For instance, a furniture finisher requires a very specific skill to be successful, while engine assemblers require another set of very different and critical skills. There’s a wide array of rewarding and successful careers to be found within the broader industry.
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- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
- Assemblers and Fabricators, All Other
- Bakers
- Bindery Workers
- Bookbinders
- Butchers and Meat Cutters
- Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
- Cementing and Gluing Machine Operators and Tenders
- Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Chemical Plant and System Operators
- Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
- Computer-Controlled Machine Tool Operators, Metal and Plastic
- Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Cutters and Trimmers, Hand
- Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Dental Laboratory Technicians
- Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers
- Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers
- Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
- Etchers and Engravers
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers
- Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators
- First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Production and Operating Workers
- Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders
- Food Batchmakers
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
- Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Foundry Mold and Coremakers
- Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders
- Furniture Finishers
- Gas Plant Operators
- Gem and Diamond Workers
- Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Helpers--Production Workers
- Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
- Jewelers
- Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
- Job Printers
- Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers
- Lay-Out Workers, Metal and Plastic
- Machinists
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
- Medical Appliance Technicians
- Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
- Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
- Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Model Makers, Metal and Plastic
- Model Makers, Wood
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
- Molding and Casting Workers
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Nuclear Power Reactor Operators
- Numerical Tool and Process Control Programmers
- Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians
- Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
- Painters, Transportation Equipment
- Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers
- Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic
- Patternmakers, Wood
- Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
- Photographic Process Workers
- Photographic Processing Machine Operators
- Plant and System Operators, All Other
- Plating and Coating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Potters, Manufacturing
- Pourers and Casters, Metal
- Power Distributors and Dispatchers
- Power Plant Operators
- Precious Metal Workers
- Prepress Technicians and Workers
- Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials
- Printing Machine Operators
- Production Workers, All Other
- Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
- Semiconductor Processors
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Sewers, Hand
- Sewing Machine Operators
- Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers
- Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders
- Slaughterers and Meat Packers
- Solderers and Brazers
- Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
- Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers
- Team Assemblers
- Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
- Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other
- Timing Device Assemblers, Adjusters, and Calibrators
- Tire Builders
- Tool and Die Makers
- Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
- Upholsterers
- Water and Liquid Waste Treatment Plant and System Operators
- Welders, Cutters, and Welder Fitters
- Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
- Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Woodworkers, All Other
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing




