Patternmakers, Wood
SOC Code: 51-7032
Patternmakers, Woods read blueprints, drawings, or written specifications to determine sizes and shapes of patterns and required machine setups. This career typically requires medium preparation (1-2 years). With an AI-proof score of 80.9/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Quality Control Analysis, Operation and Control, Operations Monitoring.
AI-Proof Score: 80.9 — Very High
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Median Salary
$52,520
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Job Growth
-5.0%
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Training Time
Medium preparation (1-2 years)
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Job Zone
Zone 3 / 5
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Training Cost
~$15,000
Key Skills
- •Quality Control Analysis
- •Operation and Control
- •Operations Monitoring
- •Complex Problem Solving
- •Monitoring
- •Critical Thinking
- •Reading Comprehension
- •Active Listening
Common Tasks
- ✓Read blueprints, drawings, or written specifications to determine sizes and shapes of patterns and required machine setups.
- ✓Fit, fasten, and assemble wood parts together to form patterns, models, or sections, using glue, nails, dowels, bolts, and screws.
- ✓Lay out patterns on wood stock and draw outlines of units, sectional patterns, or full-scale mock-ups of products, based on blueprint specifications and sketches, and using marking and measuring devices.
- ✓Trim, smooth, and shape surfaces, and plane, shave, file, scrape, and sand models to attain specified shapes, using hand tools.
- ✓Divide patterns into sections according to shapes of castings to facilitate removal of patterns from molds.
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