Step 1: Identify your interestsCompare your interests, skills and work values with manufacturing occupations using Labor Market Information’s Career Explorer:Visit www.colmigateway.com • Click on “Services for Individuals” • Choose “Career Services”This will take you to “Career Explorer” where you can match your interests, skills and work values to occupations.

Step 2: Explore the manufacturing industry & careersLearn about high-growth, in-demand careers and what they pay on the LMI Gateway website: www.colmigateway.comFor more information on a career in manufacturing, check out www.camt.com

Step 3: Find education, training & financial aidMy Colorado Journey guides students and job seekers along the application process for college, apprenticeship, military or workforce. www.mycoloradojourney.com

Step 4: Find available job openingswww.connectingcolorado.com

Manufacturing includes hands-on and machine work. Jobs in the manufacturing industry give workers the opportunity to work as part of a team building a product. Manufacturing occupations encourage innovation and can provide variety in a day’s work. If you want a career that provides problem solving opportunities with a variety of responsibilities, then manufacturing could be the right career for you!

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Getting There

Curt Castellanet Manufacturing Engineer Synthes, USA Monument, CO

Curt performs a variety of daily duties both at his desk and on the production floor as a manufacturing engineer for Synthes, a leading global medical device company. He uses his computer to design tools and procedures and to review and create engineering drawings. His hands-on work on the production floor includes gathering data from production processes, helping to solve production problems, and troubleshooting and repairing machines.

Curt loves the diversity of his work as well as the challenge of being part of a team that solves difficult problems. “I like getting to talk with really smart people who have the same goals as I do for the projects we work on together,” says Curt. “I enjoy making products that help people to heal from injuries.”

Curt has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as a Master of Business Administration in Operations Management. He attributes the foundations of his career to the science, geometry, trigonometry, and statistics classes he took in high school. He credits English, business, foreign language, and arts education as supplementary to his career path. Curt’s knowledge of the German language in particular aids him in his daily communication with German customers and suppliers of Synthes. “My advice for high school students is to take all of your coursework seriously and really dive deep into what you find interesting.”

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Who do you want to be tomorrow?Occupation Wage Range Minimum

Education/Training Suggested Programs of Study

Mechanical Engineers $62,732 - $124,955 Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering

Shipping, Receiving, & Traffic Clerks $25,050 - $39,966 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Sales Representatives, Wholesale & Manufacturing $37,193 - $97,401 Bachelor's Degree General Merchandising, Sales, Distribution, & Marketing Operations

Industrial Machinery Mechanics $41,853 - $69,129 High School Diploma Industrial Mechanics & Maintenance Technology

First-Line Supervisors of Production & Operating Workers $43,193 - $82,543 High School Diploma Operations Management & Supervision

Assemblers & Fabricators $25,332 - $38,554 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, & Weighers $28,253 - $56,191 High School Diploma Quality Control Technology/Technician

Helpers--Production Workers $22,270 - $35,649 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Bakers $23,167 - $35,150 High School Diploma Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef

Meat, Poultry, & Fish Cutters & Trimmers $23,770 - $30,610 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Slaughterers & Meat Packers $24,360 - $32,490 High School Diploma Meat Cutting/Meat Cutter

Food Batchmakers $23,466 - $33,914 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Engine & Other Machine Assemblers $29,395 - $39,988 High School Diploma Engine Machinist

Structural Metal Fabricators & Fitters $27,841 - $46,943 High School Diploma Metal Fabricator, Machine Shop Technology/Assistant

Computer-Controlled Machine Tool Operators, Metal & Plastic $31,296 - $50,330 High School Diploma Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) Machinist Technology

Software Developers, Applications $70,704 - $124,745 Bachelor's Degree Information Technology, Computer Programming, Computer Science

Computer Hardware Engineers $75,203 - $138,084 Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Computer Hardware Engineering

Industrial Engineers $66,856- $117,266 Bachelor's Degree Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Packaging Science

Cutting, Punching, & Press Machine Setters, Operators $25,011 - $44,219 High School Diploma Sheet Metal Technology, Sheetworking, Machine Tool Technology, Machinist

Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, Operators $29,580 - $51,966 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Coating, Painting, & Spraying Machine Setters, Operators $26,322 - $38,911 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Electrical, Electronic, & Electromechanical Assemblers $26,647 - $40,445 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Semiconductor Processors $24,067 - $38,344 High School Diploma Industrial Electronics Technology, Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology

Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material Movers $23,516 - $36,248 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Packaging & Filling Machine Operators & Tenders $24,256 - $39,991 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Industrial Truck & Tractor Operators $26,043 - $41,976 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Packers & Packagers $22,632 - $28,663 High School Diploma On-the-job training

Machinists $32,108 - $56,264 Post-Secondary Certificate Machine Shop Technology, Machine Tool Technology/Machinist

Welders, Cutters, Solderers, & Brazers $34,857 - $58,028 Post-Secondary Certificate Welding Engineering Technology/Technician

Food and Beverage Manufacturing

Fabricated Metal and Machinery Manufacturing

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

Manufacturing, General

Did you know? Manufacturing is green! An increasing number of manufacturing jobs are producing environmentally-friendly products. Some examples include wind turbines and power converters that emit clean energy.

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Registered Apprenticeshipscombine classroom instructionand on-the-job training supervised by journey-level craftpersons or trade professionals.Join a Registered ApprenticeshipProgram and get paid while yougo to school!

This industry has manyapprenticeships. Here are someexamples: • CNC Operator - Milling And Turning • Industrial Maintenance Mechanic • Industrial Manufacturing Technician • Machinist • Mold Designer • Tool And Die Maker

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Chase NicholsTeam AssemblerCoorsTek Golden, CO

Chase uses heavy equipment to make parts for protective gear such as transparent bullet resistant windows used by the military on its Humvees. He also makes the bullet-proof inserts that are used for police vests. Chase’s favorite part about his job as a team assembler for CoorsTek is learning about the parts he makes and their use. In high school, Chase most enjoyed his shop classes. After he graduated, he was able to apply what he learned to his job. “In those classes, we worked with a lot of the same tools as I do today,” says Chase, “so I had some understanding of how things worked when I came into this job.”

Chase begins his workday at five o’clock in the morning to prepare paper work and fire up his machine, a Lomis 120 ton extruder. After surveying the work order for the part, he extrudes, or shapes, the part according to its specifications. When he is finished, he places the part in the drying room and updates the order in the computer system. He continues this process until 2:15 p.m. when his workday ends.