Builds entire house sections or apartment rooms inside a factory, which are then trucked and craned into place.
You work an assembly line where a whole bathroom pod moves station to station: framing, then plumbing, then tile. At the end of the week a truck hauls your finished modules to a site.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. On-the-job training in a factory; carpentry or electrical skills help.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Trade school. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Construction Technology (certificate).
Growing faster than average. Factory-built housing is growing.
Medium risk for 10 years. Factory robots frame walls and nail sheathing; finishing, wiring and fixing variations stay hand work as lines automate.
Age 18+. One way to start: Apply to modular home and prefab factories; most hire beginners and train on the line
Classes: Construction CTE, Woodshop, Algebra.
Official data: O*NET occupation 47-2031.
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