Career Details

Certified Packaging Professional

Description

Only current IoPP members may apply for accreditation and recognition as a Certified Packaging Professional. Currently, a candidate is qualified to begin the process if he/she has six years experience in packaging or a closely related technical discipline. The six year requirement can be made up in the following ways: Six years actual work experience, or; a four-year college degree from a packaging school plus two years work experience, or a four-year college degree from a packaging school, plus one year for Masters Degree, plus one year actual work experience.

Certifying Organization

Institute of Packaging Professionals

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Certificates

Certificate name

Certified Professional in Training

Certifying Organization

Institute of Packaging Professionals

Type

Core

Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers

Median Annual Income

$44,030

Projected Job Growth

-3 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Set up, operate, or tend machines that extrude and form continuous filaments from synthetic materials, such as liquid polymer, rayon, and fiberglass.

RealisticConventional

Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Median Annual Income

$48,120

Projected Job Growth

+2 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Set up, operate, or tend continuous flow or vat-type equipment; filter presses; shaker screens; centrifuges; condenser tubes; precipitating, fermenting, or evaporating tanks; scrubbing towers; or batch stills. These machines extract, sort, or separate liquids, gases, or solids from other materials to recover a refined product. Includes dairy processing equipment operators.

RealisticConventional

Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Median Annual Income

$44,510

Projected Job Growth

-1 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Set up, operate, or tend machines to crush, grind, or polish materials, such as coal, glass, grain, stone, food, or rubber.

RealisticConventional

Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Median Annual Income

$44,310

Projected Job Growth

-3 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut or slice materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material.

RealisticConventional

Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Median Annual Income

$42,670

Projected Job Growth

+3 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Set up, operate, or tend machines, such as glass-forming machines, plodder machines, and tuber machines, to shape and form products such as glassware, food, rubber, soap, brick, tile, clay, wax, tobacco, or cosmetics.

RealisticConventional

Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders

Median Annual Income

$43,540

Projected Job Growth

-1 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Operate or tend bonding machines that use adhesives to join items for further processing or to form a completed product. Processes include joining veneer sheets into plywood; gluing paper; or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials.

RealisticConventional

Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Median Annual Income

$47,250

Projected Job Growth

-13 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Set up, operate, or tend paper goods machines that perform a variety of functions, such as converting, sawing, corrugating, banding, wrapping, boxing, stitching, forming, or sealing paper or paperboard sheets into products.

RealisticConventional

Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand

Median Annual Income

$37,660

Projected Job Growth

+4 %

Career Cluster(s)

Supply Chain & Transportation

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Manually move freight, stock, luggage, or other materials, or perform other general labor. Includes all manual laborers not elsewhere classified.

RealisticConventional