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Millwrights

Architecture & Construction $30.81 High school diploma or equivalent 28%  projected growth 140  annual job openings

Install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, or other drawings.

Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Manufacturing $23.05 High school diploma or equivalent 22%  projected growth 650  annual job openings

Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.

Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines

Transportation, Distribution & Logistics $29.67 High school diploma or equivalent 23%  projected growth 440  annual job openings

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul mobile mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment, such as cranes, bulldozers, graders, and conveyors, used in construction, logging, and mining.

Model Makers, Metal and Plastic

Manufacturing $31.51 High school diploma or equivalent 10%  projected growth 10  annual job openings

Set up and operate machines, such as lathes, milling and engraving machines, and jig borers to make working models of metal or plastic objects. Includes template makers.

Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic

Manufacturing $22.02 High school diploma or equivalent 26%  projected growth 150  annual job openings

Mold, shape, form, cast, or carve products such as food products, figurines, tile, pipes, and candles consisting of clay, glass, plaster, concrete, stone, or combinations of materials.

Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Manufacturing $17.97 High school diploma or equivalent 9%  projected growth 420  annual job openings

Set up, operate, or tend metal or plastic molding, casting, or coremaking machines to mold or cast metal or thermoplastic parts or products.

Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers

Human Services $28.14 Associate's degree 73%  projected growth 380  annual job openings

Perform various tasks to arrange and direct individual funeral services, such as coordinating transportation of body to mortuary, interviewing family or other authorized person to arrange details, selecting pallbearers, aiding with the selection of officials for religious rites, and providing transportation for mourners.

Motion Picture Projectionists

Hospitality & Tourism $22.94 No formal educational credential 77%  projected growth 50  annual job openings

Set up and operate motion picture projection and related sound reproduction equipment.

Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other

Transportation, Distribution & Logistics $21.19 No formal educational credential 25%  projected growth 520  annual job openings

All motor vehicle operators not listed separately.

Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians

Transportation, Distribution & Logistics $24.17 High school diploma or equivalent 52%  projected growth 240  annual job openings

Repair and adjust electrical and mechanical equipment of inboard or inboard-outboard boat engines.