We've identified high-demand jobs in manufacturing and related industries in the South Bend region. Take a look at the different jobs available and how growing your skill level positively impacts income. To see more manufacturing career opportunities, visit Indiana Career Explorer. Interested in current job postings in our region? Check out the Chamber Jobs Board.
Responsible for moving freight, stock, or other materials to and from storage or production areas, loading docks, delivery vehicles, ships, or containers by hand or using trucks, tractors, or other equipment.
Entry-Level Pay: $35,538/yr. ($17.09/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $40,943/yr. ($19.68/hr.)
Expert Level: $53,563/yr. ($25.75/hr.)
Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of a building in repair. Employees are employed across all manufacturing industries.
Entry-Level Pay: $39010/yr. ($18.76/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $50,137/yr. ($24.10/hr.)
Expert Level: $67,879/yr. ($32.63/hr.)
Responsible for assembling both finished products and the pieces that go into them using a variety of hand tools and are most often employed by the Motor Vehicle & Motor Vehicle Equipment Manufacturing industry.
Entry-Level Pay: $36,688/yr. ($17.64/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $40,882/yr. ($19.65/hr.)
Expert Level: $50,803/yr. ($24.42/hr.)
Examine shipment contents and compare with records, such as manifests, invoices, or orders to verify accuracy. Schedule deliveries and receive items into inventory stock, prepare documents for shipping
Entry-Level Pay: $39,482/yr. ($18.98/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $45,897/yr. ($22.07/hr.)
Expert Level: $58,977/yr. ($28.35/hr.)
Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers, such as inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators. Excludes team or work leaders.
Entry-Level Pay: $57,257/yr. ($27.53/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $70,798/yr. ($34.04/hr.)
Expert Level: $97,574/yr. ($46.91/hr.)
Install, maintain, and repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures in a manufacturing environment. Ensure work is in accordance with relevant codes.
Entry-Level Pay: $48,251/yr. ($23.20/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $71,622/yr. ($34.43/hr.)
Expert Level: $100,835/yr. ($48.48/hr.)
Set up and operate a variety of machine tools to produce precision parts and instruments out of metal. Includes precision instrument makers who fabricate, modify, or repair mechanical instruments. May also fabricate and modify parts to make or repair machine tools or maintain industrial machines, applying knowledge of mechanics, mathematics, metal properties, layout, and machining procedures.
Entry-Level Pay: $45,996/yr. ($22.11/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $53,602/yr. ($25.77/hr.)
Expert Level: $68,988/yr. ($33.17/hr.)
Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh nonagricultural raw materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment.
Typical Education Requirement: Certificate
Entry-Level Pay: $36,537/yr. ($17.57/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $47,122/yr. ($22.65/hr.)
Expert Level: $64,318/yr. ($30.92/hr.)
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
Entry-Level Pay: $53,453/yr. ($25.70/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $63,955/yr. ($30.75/hr.)
Expert Level: $81,573/yr. ($39.22/hr.)
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.
Entry-Level Pay: $45,001/yr. ($21.64/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $51,963/yr. ($24.98/hr.)
Expert Level: $65,599/yr. ($31.54/hr.)
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.
Entry-Level Pay: $69,704/yr. ($33.51/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $85.552/yr. ($41.13/hr.)
Expert Level: $114,167/yr. ($54.89/hr.)
Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal or plastic material.
Typical Education Requirement: None
Entry-Level Pay: $38,475/yr. ($18.50/hr.)
Average Pay/Salary: $45,584/yr. ($21.92/hr.)
Expert Level: $57,566/yr. ($27.68/hr.)
