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Engineering Production Workers

ANZSCO 7123

Employed

20,100

Part-time share

9%

Female share

9%

Median weekly earnings

$1,656

Median age

41 yrs

Employment outlook

Declining

Source: Jobs and Skills Australia · ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing.

About this career

Engineering Production Workers perform a range of production process tasks to refine and treat metals and mineral ore, fire ceramics, and operate plant to produce and finish metal products such as rods, tubing and structural shapes, and moulds for casting.

What they typically do

  • 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

States and territories

Share of workers by location

NSW
31.7%
QLD
18.3%
VIC
17.5%
WA
16.7%
SA
10.5%
TAS
4%
ACT
0.7%
NT
0.5%

Qualification pathways

These accredited qualifications can lead to a career as an Engineering Production Workers.