General Jobs

Top Blue Collar Jobs

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists top blue-collar jobs:

1. Aircraft mechanics
2. Aircraft service technicians
3. Boilermakers
4. Brickmasons
5. Carpet installers
6. Chemical plant and system operators
7. Construction and building inspectors
8. Electricians
9. Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation and equipment
10. Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
11. Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse substation and relay
12. Elevator installers and repairers
13. First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers
14. First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers and repairers
15. First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators
16. Gas plant operators
17. Line installers and repairers
18. Locomotive engineers
19. Machinists
20. Millwrights
21. Mining machine operators
22. Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines
23. Model maker, metal and plastic
24. Nuclear power reactor operators
25. Numerical tool and process control programmers
26. Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators and gaugers
27. Power distributors and dispatchers
28. Power plant operators
29. Plumbers
30. Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers
31. Rail car repairers
32. Railroad brake, signal and switch operators
33. Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
34. Ship and boat captains and operators
35. Ship engineers
36. Stationary engineers and boiler operators
37. Structural iron and steel workers
38. Subway and streetcar operators
39. Tool and die makers
40. Transportation inspectors