Sheet Metal Workers
SOC Code: 47-2211
Sheet Metal Workerss maintain equipment, making repairs or modifications when necessary. This career typically requires moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year). With an AI-proof score of 80.2/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Mathematics, Quality Control Analysis, Coordination.
AI-Proof Score: 80.2 — Very High
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Median Salary
$60,850
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Job Growth
2.4%
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Training Time
Moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year)
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Job Zone
Zone 2 / 5
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Training Cost
~$5,000
Key Skills
- •Mathematics
- •Quality Control Analysis
- •Coordination
- •Monitoring
- •Critical Thinking
- •Reading Comprehension
- •Time Management
- •Speaking
Common Tasks
- ✓Maintain equipment, making repairs or modifications when necessary.
- ✓Fabricate ducts for high efficiency heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to maximize efficiency of systems.
- ✓Fasten seams or joints together with welds, bolts, cement, rivets, solder, caulks, metal drive clips, or bonds to assemble components into products or to repair sheet metal items.
- ✓Transport prefabricated parts to construction sites for assembly and installation.
- ✓Install assemblies, such as flashing, pipes, tubes, heating and air conditioning ducts, furnace casings, rain gutters, or downspouts in supportive frameworks.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation