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Career transition

Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems AssemblersStructural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

What it takes to move from aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers into structural metal fabricators and fitters — the overlap, the gaps, and the pay change.

The transferable cut

Refit analysis ·10 of the top skills overlap between Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers and Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters — Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Speaking, Critical Thinking, so that experience transfers directly. The main gaps to close are few. Median pay moves from $61,680 to $49,900 (-19%).

Skills that transfer

You likely already have these from aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers.

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Active Listening
  • Speaking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Monitoring
  • Writing
  • Active Learning
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Learning Strategies

Gaps to close

What structural metal fabricators and fittersasks for that you'll need to build.

  • No major missing skills among the top set.

Pay change

Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
$61,680
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
$49,900

Re-angle your Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers experience toward Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

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See how your resume lines up with Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

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