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Last updated: October 31, 2024
Plastics Fabricator Salary
in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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$41,351 (USD)
Average Salary
$20/hr
Average Hourly
$633
Average Bonus
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The average pay for a Plastics Fabricator is $41,351 a year and $20 an hour in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. The average salary range for a Plastics Fabricator is between $30,559 and $49,001. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
ERI's compensation data are based on salary surveys conducted and researched by ERI. Cost of labor data in the Assessor Series are based on actual housing sales data from commercially available sources, plus rental rates, gasoline prices, consumables, medical care premium costs, property taxes, effective income tax rates, etc.
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Estimated salary in 2029:
$46,448
5 Year Change:
12 %
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About Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 31,402 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Area. Oak Ridge's nicknames include the Atomic City, the Secret City, and the City Behind a Fence.
In 1942, the United States federal government forcibly purchased nearly 60,000 acres (240 km2) of farmland in the Clinch River valley for the development of a planned city supporting 75,000 residents. It was constructed with assistance from architectural and engineering firm...
Job Summary
Description:
- Fabricates, assembles, reworks, and repairs plastic products, applying knowledge of working characteristics of plastics and bonding techniques, using precision instruments, handtools, power tools, machines, and equipment: reads and interprets blueprints, work orders, and related documentation to determine methods and sequence of operations and dimensional and finish specifications.
- Lays out cutting lines on plastic materials, such as sheet stock and fiberglass or graphite cloth, following template pattern, blueprints, sketches, or sample part, using measuring and marking instruments.
- Cuts material to size, using shears, knives, cutters, scissors, router, or saw.
- Mixes ingredients, such as resins, catalysts, fillers, accelerators, and colors, according to formulas, manually or using mixer.
- Sets up and operates forming machines and presses, or laminates plastic cloth and resins or preimpregnated cloth onto layup mold or bonding fixture, to shape parts.
- Wraps bonding fixture or mold in vacuum bagging materials, attaches fittings to mold or fixture, such as vacuum connections, thermocouples, and probes, and exhausts air from vacuum bag to prepare lamination for curing or bonding.
- Operates oven to cure parts.
- Trims, drills, reams, countersinks, grinds, and finishes parts to specifications, using templates, handtools, and power tools.
- Verifies dimensions of parts, using precision instruments, such as dial indicators, micrometers, and calipers.
- Fits and assembles parts and attaches hardware and fittings, such as brackets and hinges, using clamps, jigs, fixtures, and power tools.
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Salary Recap
The average pay for a Plastics Fabricator is $41,351 a year and $20 an hour in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. The average salary range for a Plastics Fabricator is between $30,559 and $49,001. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
ERI's compensation data are based on salary surveys conducted and researched by ERI. Cost of labor data in the Assessor Series are based on actual housing sales data from commercially available sources, plus rental rates, gasoline prices, consumables, medical care premium costs, property taxes, effective income tax rates, etc.
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Plastics Fabricator Job Prevalence in the United States
Job family: Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Job family population: 179,230
Estimated population of Plastics Fabricator jobs: 2,344
Rate of error: 1.3%
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About Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge Cost of Living Score:
Description:
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 31,402 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Area. Oak Ridge's nicknames include the Atomic City, the Secret City, and the City Behind a Fence.
In 1942, the United States federal government forcibly purchased nearly 60,000 acres (240 km2) of farmland in the Clinch River valley for the development of a planned city supporting 75,000 residents. It was constructed with assistance from architectural and engineering firm...
Job Summary
Description:
- Fabricates, assembles, reworks, and repairs plastic products, applying knowledge of working characteristics of plastics and bonding techniques, using precision instruments, handtools, power tools, machines, and equipment: reads and interprets blueprints, work orders, and related documentation to determine methods and sequence of operations and dimensional and finish specifications.
- Lays out cutting lines on plastic materials, such as sheet stock and fiberglass or graphite cloth, following template pattern, blueprints, sketches, or sample part, using measuring and marking instruments.
- Cuts material to size, using shears, knives, cutters, scissors, router, or saw.
- Mixes ingredients, such as resins, catalysts, fillers, accelerators, and colors, according to formulas, manually or using mixer.
- Sets up and operates forming machines and presses, or laminates plastic cloth and resins or preimpregnated cloth onto layup mold or bonding fixture, to shape parts.
- Wraps bonding fixture or mold in vacuum bagging materials, attaches fittings to mold or fixture, such as vacuum connections, thermocouples, and probes, and exhausts air from vacuum bag to prepare lamination for curing or bonding.
- Operates oven to cure parts.
- Trims, drills, reams, countersinks, grinds, and finishes parts to specifications, using templates, handtools, and power tools.
- Verifies dimensions of parts, using precision instruments, such as dial indicators, micrometers, and calipers.
- Fits and assembles parts and attaches hardware and fittings, such as brackets and hinges, using clamps, jigs, fixtures, and power tools.
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