Sheetmetal Worker

As a Sheet Metal Worker, you’ll shape, weld, and assemble metal components that form the backbone of industries worldwide.

Your role may include duties as follows: 

1. Reading and interpreting drawings and specifications.
2. Metalworking including marking-up, cutting, shaping, bending and bolting.
3. Working with hand tools, metal cutters, cutting torches and laser cutting machines.
4. Quality testing to ensure the metal outcome reflects the requirements.
5. Material repair and maintenance for ensuring safety.

This career is hands-on and creative, blending craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology. From interpreting technical drawings to crafting high-precision parts and structures, your skills turn engineering designs into durable, real world products.

Vocational Education Training Options

An apprenticeship with a manufacturer is the best way to gain employment as a Sheetmetal Worker. You may find it useful to undertake a Certificate II in Engineering Pathways (MEM20422) while you are at school or before commencing an apprenticeship to introduce you to the manufacturing concepts and equipment used.

You can undertake the following qualification as apprenticeship:

• Certificate III in Engineering – Fabrication Trade (Sheetmetal working) (MEM31922)

Salary Expectations

Median salary is $66,800

2023 ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours (Jobs and Skills Australia website), annualised weekly earnings for Sheetmetal Trades.