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Highway Maintenance Workers

Architecture & Construction $20.81 High school diploma or equivalent 1%  projected growth 170  annual job openings

Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.

Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks

Hospitality & Tourism $16.33 High school diploma or equivalent 37%  projected growth 340  annual job openings

Accommodate hotel, motel, and resort patrons by registering and assigning rooms to guests, issuing room keys or cards, transmitting and receiving messages, keeping records of occupied rooms and guests' accounts, making and confirming reservations, and presenting statements to and collecting payments from departing guests.

Human Resources Managers

Business Management & Administration $62.42 Bachelor's degree 4%  projected growth 50  annual job openings

Plan, direct, or coordinate human resources activities and staff of an organization.

Human Resources Specialists

Business Management & Administration $31.72 Bachelor's degree 2%  projected growth 190  annual job openings

Recruit, screen, interview, or place individuals within an organization. May perform other activities in multiple human resources areas.

Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Manufacturing $30.38 Associate's degree 7%  projected growth 10  annual job openings

Apply engineering theory and principles to problems of industrial layout or manufacturing production, usually under the direction of engineering staff. May perform time and motion studies on worker operations in a variety of industries for purposes such as establishing standard production rates or improving efficiency.

Industrial Engineers

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics $41.45 Bachelor's degree 12%  projected growth 70  annual job openings

Design, develop, test, and evaluate integrated systems for managing industrial production processes, including human work factors, quality control, inventory control, logistics and material flow, cost analysis, and production coordination.

Industrial Machinery Mechanics

Manufacturing $29.10 High school diploma or equivalent 11%  projected growth 170  annual job openings

Repair, install, adjust, or maintain industrial production and processing machinery or refinery and pipeline distribution systems. May also install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to plans.

Industrial Production Managers

Business Management & Administration $49.66 Bachelor's degree 1%  projected growth 50  annual job openings

Plan, direct, or coordinate the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing products in accordance with cost, quality, and quantity specifications.

Information and Record Clerks, All Other

Business Management & Administration $15.43 High school diploma or equivalent 1%  projected growth 90  annual job openings

All information and record clerks not listed separately.

Instructional Coordinators

Education & Training $31.49 Master's degree 4%  projected growth 60  annual job openings

Develop instructional material, coordinate educational content, and incorporate current technology into instruction in order to provide guidelines to educators and instructors for developing curricula and conducting courses. May train and coach teachers. Includes educational consultants and specialists, and instructional material directors.