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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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Typical progression

  1. Junior Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers

    Entry / Junior

    $30,280

    ~2 yrs to advance

  2. Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers

    Established

    $41,080

    ~3 yrs to advance

  3. 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

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