Career Details

Woods

Description

Three Modules: The Woods certification exams assess learners' ability to apply technical knowledge and skills in woodworking. Woods 1 focuses on basic skills in layout, shaping, assembly, and finishing, emphasizing craftsmanship, production sense, and design principles, while ensuring safe use of tools and machinery. Woods 2 builds on this by evaluating more advanced techniques, production principles, and design in a manufacturing environment. Woods 3 further develops these skills, emphasizing advanced craftsmanship, production, and widely accepted design principles.

Certifying Organization

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Certificates

Certificate name

Industrial Carpenter

Certifying Organization

National Center for Construction Education and Research

Type

Core

Certificate name

Industrial Carpenter

Certifying Organization

National Center for Construction Education and Research

Type

Core

Carpenters

Median Annual Income

$56,350

Projected Job Growth

+4 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of wood and comparable materials, such as concrete forms; building frameworks, including partitions, joists, studding, and rafters; and wood stairways, window and door frames, and hardwood floors. May also install cabinets, siding, drywall, and batt or roll insulation. Includes brattice builders who build doors or brattices (ventilation walls or partitions) in underground passageways.

RealisticConventional

Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

Median Annual Income

$48,480

Projected Job Growth

-15 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Fabricate, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products.

RealisticConventional

Model Makers, Metal and Plastic

Median Annual Income

$64,190

Projected Job Growth

-18 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Set up and operate machines, such as lathes, milling and engraving machines, and jig borers to make working models of metal or plastic objects. Includes template makers.

RealisticConventional

Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic

Median Annual Income

$62,270

Projected Job Growth

-4 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Lay out reference points and dimensions on metal or plastic stock or workpieces, such as sheets, plates, tubes, structural shapes, castings, or machine parts, for further processing. Includes shipfitters.

RealisticConventional

Upholsterers

Median Annual Income

$42,730

Projected Job Growth

-2 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Make, repair, or replace upholstery for household furniture or transportation vehicles.

RealisticArtisticConventional

Furniture Finishers

Median Annual Income

$39,790

Projected Job Growth

-2 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Shape, finish, and refinish damaged, worn, or used furniture or new high-grade furniture to specified color or finish.

RealisticConventionalArtistic

Model Makers, Wood

Median Annual Income

$45,040

Projected Job Growth

-13 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Construct full-size and scale wooden precision models of products. Includes wood jig builders and loft workers.

RealisticConventionalArtistic

Patternmakers, Wood

Median Annual Income

$48,630

Projected Job Growth

-14 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Plan, lay out, and construct wooden unit or sectional patterns used in forming sand molds for castings.

RealisticConventionalArtistic

Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

Median Annual Income

$38,260

Projected Job Growth

-2 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment.

RealisticConventional

Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing

Median Annual Income

$43,310

Projected Job Growth

+5 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Cut or carve stone according to diagrams and patterns.

RealisticArtisticConventional