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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.

Engineering Production Workers is a job in Australia. The job figures on this page come from Jobs and Skills Australia and the ABS Census, where they are published. The courses listed here lead to this job. Compare the fee, study mode, length, place, and how to get in before you enquire.

Courses linked to this job include Certificate III in Resource Processing and Certificate II in Engineering Studies.

Jobs and Skills Australia rates the job outlook as Declining.

Jobs, part-time share, age, and pay appear on this page only when Jobs and Skills Australia or the ABS has published them for Engineering Production Workers. A blank is a missing figure, not a pay of zero. The courses below are linked to this job. Open one to compare the fee, study mode, length, campus, and how to get in.

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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.