Skilled Trades
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Move or install mobile homes or prefabricated buildings.
Median salary
$41,080
Typical range
$30k – $57k
Job outlook
+6% (faster than average)
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Education
Typical entry: No degree required
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Junior Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Entry / Junior
$30,280
~2 yrs to advance
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Established
$41,080
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Senior
$49,135
Key skills
A typical day
- •Seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammers.
- •Move and set up mobile homes or prefabricated buildings on owners' lots or at mobile home parks.
- •Inspect, examine, and test the operation of parts or systems to evaluate operating condition and to determine if repairs are needed.
- •Connect water hoses to inlet pipes of plumbing systems, and test operation of plumbing fixtures.
- •Remove damaged exterior panels, repair and replace structural frame members, and seal leaks, using hand tools.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Skilled Trades
Explore all- Purdue University50% admit · $78,000 grad pay
- Ohio State University53% admit · $68,000 grad pay
- Pennsylvania State University55% admit · $70,000 grad pay
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