At a glance

Description Set up, operate, or tend spraying or rolling machines to coat or paint any of a wide variety of products, including glassware, cloth, ceramics, metal, plastic, paper, or wood, with lacquer, silver, copper, rubber, varnish, glaze, enamel, oil, or rust-proofing materials. Includes painters of transportation vehicles such as painters in auto body repair facilities.

Alternate titles
  • Abrasive Coating Machine Operator
  • Abrasive Coating Machine Setup Operator
  • Air Drier
  • Air Drier Machine Operator
  • Aircraft Painter
  • Auto Body Painter (Automotive Body Painter)
  • Auto Painter (Automobile Painter)
  • Auto Refinisher (Automobile Refinisher)
  • Auto Striper (Automotive Striper)
  • Automatic Paint Sprayer Operator
  • Automobile Body Painter
  • Automotive Paint Prepper (Auto Paint Prepper)
  • Automotive Paint Technician (Auto Paint Tech)
  • Automotive Painter (Auto Painter)
  • Automotive Refinish Technician (Auto Refinish Tech)
  • Automotive Spray Painter (Auto Spray Painter)
  • Black Off Worker
  • Blackener
  • Blacker
  • Boat Painter
Alternate titles
  • Body Painter
  • Bonderite Operator
  • Bonderizer
  • Bonderizer Operator
  • Brake Linings Coater
  • Bronzer
  • Browner
  • Buckle Strap Drum Operator
  • Calender Operator
  • Car Finish Man
  • Car Painter
  • Carbon Coating Machine Operator
  • Carbon Paper Coating Machine Setter
  • Cast Iron Dipper
  • Cathode Maker
  • Coater
  • Coater Operator
  • Coating Machine Operator
  • Coating Operator
  • Colorman
  • Dagger
  • Depositing Machine Operator
  • Dip Filler
  • Dip Painter
  • Dipper
  • Dipper Operator
  • Disintegrator
  • Dixonac Operator
  • Dope Sprayer
  • Dopeman
  • Doper
  • Drier Operator
  • Drum Sprayer
  • Duco Polisher
  • Electrostatic Paint Operator
  • Electrostatic Powder Coating Technician
  • Embossing Unit Operator
  • Emulsion Coater
  • Enamel Dipper
  • Enamel Machine Operator
  • Enameler
  • Enrobing Machine Operator
  • Finish Painter
  • Finisher Operator
  • First Calender Worker
  • Foam Machine Operator
  • Four Roll Calender Operator
  • Foxing Painter
  • Furniture Dipper
  • Furniture Painter
  • Furniture Sprayer
  • Getter Filler
  • Getter Operator
  • Gettering Operator
  • Glazing Machine Operator
  • Glue Size Machine Operator
  • Hand Sprayer
  • Hardboard Coating Machine Operator
  • Hot Dipper
  • Icer Machine Operator
  • Impregnating Tank Operator
  • Impregnation Operator
  • Impregnator
  • Industrial Painter
  • Industrial Spray Painter
  • Insulation Board Calender Operator
  • Lacquer Spray Booth Operator
  • Laminating Press Operator
  • Latexer
  • Machine Heel Sprayer
  • Machine Icer
  • Machine Operator
  • Machine Sprayer
  • Marbleizer
  • Mastic Sprayer
  • Mechanical Striper
  • Mobile Paint Specialist
  • Ornamental Machine Operator
  • Paint Dipper
  • Paint Line Operator
  • Paint Operator
  • Paint Preparation Technician (Paint Prep Tech)
  • Paint Prepper
  • Paint Specialist
  • Paint Spray Tender
  • Paint Technician (Paint Tech)
  • Painter
  • Painting Machine Operator
  • Paper Coater
  • Paper Coating Machine Operator
  • Paraffin Machine Operator
  • Paraffiner
  • Pill Coater
  • Powder Coater
  • Prefinish Operator
  • Pressure Washer
  • Primer Waterproofing Machine Adjuster
  • Printed Circuit Boards Coating Equipment Operator (PCB Coating Equipment Operator)
  • Production Finisher
  • Production Painter
  • Railroad Car Letterer
  • Railroad Car Painter
  • Recoating Machine Operator
  • Redipper
  • Reed Dipper
  • Refinish Technician
  • Ribbon Inker
  • Roofing Machine Operator
  • Rust Proofer
  • Sandblaster
  • Sandblaster Paint Sprayer
  • Sanding Machine Operator
  • Saturator Tender
  • Screen Tender
  • Sensitizer
  • Shipyard Painter
  • Shot Coat Tender
  • Silk Screen Operator
  • Silvering Applicator
  • Sizing Machine Operator
  • Smoking Pipe Coater
  • Spray Foam Applicator
  • Spray Machine Operator
  • Spray Painter
  • Spray Painting Machine Operator
  • Spray Technician (Spray Tech)
  • Spraying Machine Operator
  • Spreading Machine Operator
  • Stain Applicator
  • Staining Machine Operator
  • Supercalender Operator
  • Tablet Coater
  • Tactical Vehicle Painter
  • Tape Coater
  • Tarring Machine Operator
  • Tinner
  • Tip Bander
  • Top Coater
  • Touch Up Painter
  • Transportation Equipment Painter
  • Tumbling Barrel Painter
  • Varnisher
  • Varnishing Machine Operator
  • Varnishing Unit Tool Setter
  • Vehicle Painter
  • Wad Impregnator
  • Waterproofing Technician (Waterproofing Tech)
  • Wax Machine Operator
  • Waxing Machine Operator
  • Whiting Machine Operator
  • Wire Coater
  • Wire Coating Machine Operator
Salaire horaire moyen $22.00 - $34.39 ($45,770.00 - $71,530.00 annually)*
Nombre total annuel d'ouvertures83
Nombre total d'employés961

A day in the life

  • Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
  • Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
  • Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
Work activities
  • Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
  • Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
  • Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
  • Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
  • Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
  • Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
  • Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
  • Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
  • Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment: Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
  • Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
  • Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
  • Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
  • Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
  • Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
  • Performing General Physical Activities: Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
  • Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
  • Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
  • Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
  • Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
  • Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
  • Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
  • Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment: Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
  • Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
  • Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
  • Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
  • Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
  • Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
  • Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
  • Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
  • Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
  • Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
  • Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
  • Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
  • Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
  • Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
  • Communicating with People Outside the Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
  • Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
  • Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
  • Attention to Detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
  • Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
  • Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
Work styles
  • Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
  • Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
  • Independence: Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
  • Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
  • Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
  • Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
  • Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
  • Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.
  • Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
  • Analytical Thinking: Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
  • Social Orientation: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
  • Innovation: Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
  • Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
  • Support: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
  • Relationships: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
  • Independence: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
Work values
  • Achievement: Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
  • Recognition: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
  • Working Conditions: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
  • Realistic: Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.
  • Conventional: Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.
  • Artistic: Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.
Work interests
  • Investigative: Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.
  • Social: Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.
  • Enterprising: Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.
  • Adjust controls on infrared ovens, heat lamps, portable ventilators, or exhaust units to speed the drying of surfaces between coats.
  • Apply primer over any repairs made to surfaces.
  • Fill small dents or scratches with body fillers and smooth surfaces to prepare for painting.
Work tasks
  • Mix paints to match color specifications or original colors, stirring or thinning paints, using spatulas or power mixing equipment.
  • Remove grease, dirt, paint, or rust from surfaces in preparation for paint application, using abrasives, solvents, brushes, blowtorches, washing tanks, or sandblasters.
  • Sand and apply sealer to properly dried finish.
  • Observe machine gauges and equipment operation to detect defects or deviations from standards, and make adjustments as necessary.
  • Determine paint flow, viscosity, and coating quality by performing visual inspections, or by using viscometers.
  • Turn dials, handwheels, valves, or switches to regulate conveyor speeds, machine temperature, air pressure and circulation, and the flow or spray of coatings or paints.
  • Start and stop operation of machines, using levers or buttons.
  • Fill hoppers, reservoirs, troughs, or pans with material used to coat, paint, or spray, using conveyors or pails.
  • Attach hoses or nozzles to machines, using wrenches and pliers, and make adjustments to obtain the proper dispersion of spray.
  • Examine, measure, weigh, or test sample products to ensure conformance to specifications.
  • Hold or position spray guns to direct spray onto articles.
  • Apply rust-resistant undercoats and caulk and seal seams.
  • Buff and wax the finished paintwork.
  • Clean equipment and work areas.
  • Disassemble, clean, and reassemble sprayers or power equipment, using solvents, wire brushes, and cloths.
  • Dispose of hazardous waste in an appropriate manner.
  • Monitor painting operations to identify flaws, such as blisters or streaks, and correct their causes.
  • Spray prepared surfaces with specified amounts of primers and decorative or finish coatings.
  • Use brush to hand-paint areas in need of retouching or unreachable with a spray gun.
  • Weigh or measure chemicals, coatings, or paints before adding them to machines.
  • Record operational data on specified forms.
  • Operate auxiliary machines or equipment used in coating or painting processes.
  • Thread or feed items or products through or around machine rollers and dryers.
  • Remove materials, parts, or workpieces from painting or coating machines, using hand tools.
  • Operate lifting or moving devices to move equipment or materials to access areas to be painted.
  • Set up portable equipment, such as ventilators, exhaust units, ladders, or scaffolding.
  • Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  • English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
  • Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Work knowledge
  • Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
  • Chemistry: Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
  • Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
  • Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  • Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
  • Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
  • Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
  • Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  • Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
  • Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  • Physics: Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
  • Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
  • Communications and Media: Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
  • Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
  • Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  • Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
  • Building and Construction: Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
  • Foreign Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
  • Sales and Marketing: Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  • Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  • Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
  • Geography: Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
  • Philosophy and Theology: Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
  • Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
  • Medicine and Dentistry: Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
  • Fine Arts: Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
  • History and Archeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
  • Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
  • Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
  • Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
  • Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
  • Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Work abilities
  • Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
  • Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
  • Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
  • Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
  • Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
  • Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
  • Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
  • Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
  • Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
  • Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
  • Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
  • Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
  • Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
  • Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
  • Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
  • Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
  • Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
  • Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
  • Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
  • Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
  • Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
  • Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
  • Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
  • Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
  • Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
  • Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
  • Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
  • Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
  • Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
  • Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
  • Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
  • Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
  • Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
  • Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
  • Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
  • Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
  • Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
  • Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
  • Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
  • Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
  • Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
  • Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
  • Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
  • Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
  • Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
  • Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
  • Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
  • Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
  • Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
  • Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Work skills
  • Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
  • Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
  • Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
  • Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
  • Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
  • Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
  • Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
  • Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
  • Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
  • Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
  • Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
  • Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
  • Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
  • Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
  • Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
  • Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
  • Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
  • Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
  • Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
  • Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
  • Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
  • Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
  • Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
  • Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
  • Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
  • Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

Education & Training

Education High school diploma or equivalent

Licensing Some professions require a specific license to work in Maine. For information on any licensing requirements for this and other occupations, visit the Maine Office of Professional and Financial Regulation.

Training Moderate-term on-the-job training

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Regional Occupation Data

Data provided by CWRI
Total number employed 961
Average annual wage* $45,770 - $71,530
Annual total openings 83
Average hourly wage* $22.00 - $34.39
Total number employed 151
Average annual wage* $44,200 - $57,740
Annual total openings 14
Average hourly wage* $21.25 - $27.76
Total number employed 236
Average annual wage* $39,460 - $82,870
Annual total openings 21
Average hourly wage* $18.97 - $39.84
Total number employed 409
Average annual wage* No data available
Annual total openings 40
Average hourly wage* No data available

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