Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Career, Salary and Skills

Occupation description

Laminate layers of fiberglass on molds to form boat decks and hulls, bodies for golf carts, automobiles, or other products.

National salary and employment

Top skills

Typical tasks

• Release air bubbles and smooth seams, using rollers.
• Spray chopped fiberglass, resins, and catalysts onto prepared molds or dies using pneumatic spray guns with chopper attachments.
• Mix catalysts into resins, and saturate cloth and mats with mixtures, using brushes.
• Check completed products for conformance to specifications and for defects by measuring with rulers or micrometers, by checking them visually, or by tapping them to detect bubbles or dead spots.
• Pat or press layers of saturated mat or cloth into place on molds, using brushes or hands, and smooth out wrinkles and air bubbles with hands or squeegees.
• Select precut fiberglass mats, cloth, and wood-bracing materials as required by projects being assembled.
• Bond wood reinforcing strips to decks and cabin structures of watercraft, using resin-saturated fiberglass.
• Trim excess materials from molds, using hand shears or trimming knives.

Technology

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word

Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators salary by location

Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.

• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in FL
  Median $47,140 · Employment 2,870
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in IN
  Median $45,820 · Employment 2,010
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in WA
  Median $58,410 · Employment 1,100
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in Elkhart, IN
  Median $47,960 · Employment 1,050
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in TX
  Median $44,450 · Employment 1,050
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in NC
  Median $43,890 · Employment 850
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in CA
  Median $47,750 · Employment 850
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in Seattle, WA
  Median $59,110 · Employment 770
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in NJ
  Median $54,080 · Employment 680
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in TN
  Median $52,120 · Employment 590
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in Philadelphia, PA
  Median $54,080 · Employment 560
• Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators Salary in MI
  Median $43,980 · Employment 520

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