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Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers: where your skills can take you

Use hand-welding, flame-cutting, hand-soldering, or brazing equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

Job names and descriptions on this page come from the US government's job list (O*NET). Some use American words, for example "elementary school" for primary school.

Three moves that use what a welders, cutters, solderers, and brazer already knows

Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.

Tire Builders

Most common: Year 12 or below (54%) · A$88,800 median full-time for Plastics and Rubber Production Machine Operators (Jobs and Skills Australia)

🧰 Your current job already uses watching gauges and readings, operating machines and controls, checking quality and sound judgement.

🎓 No more study. The most common level in Australia is Year 12 or below (54%).

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Operate machines to build tires.

Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses watching gauges and readings, managing your own time, weighing up the options and keeping an eye on how work is going.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (95%).

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

Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses checking quality, watching gauges and readings, operating machines and controls and finding the cause of a fault.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (81%).

🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗

Set up, operate, or tend wood sawing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment. Includes lead sawyers.

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What this list is. A starting point, not advice. Australian pay is shown where a job maps cleanly. Check any course or registration with the body that runs it.

Data sources and licences

O*NET 30.3 — This service incorporates information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobMatcha has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

ABS ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update — Australian occupation tags are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update correspondence tables (ABS, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0), bridged to U.S. occupations via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SOC crosswalks (public domain). Only high-confidence (>= 0.8) one-to-one chains are shown; other mappings are withheld as 'Australian data unavailable'.

Australian pay and shortage lines: Jobs and Skills Australia.

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