What You'll Do

  • 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.
  • Select precut fiberglass mats, cloth, and wood-bracing materials as required by projects being assembled.
  • 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.
  • Mix catalysts into resins, and saturate cloth and mats with mixtures, using brushes.
  • Bond wood reinforcing strips to decks and cabin structures of watercraft, using resin-saturated fiberglass.
  • 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.
  • Trim excess materials from molds, using hand shears or trimming knives.
  • Repair or modify damaged or defective glass-fiber parts, checking thicknesses, densities, and contours to ensure a close fit after repair.
  • Cure materials by letting them set at room temperature, placing them under heat lamps, or baking them in ovens.

Essential Skills

Monitoring 3.12/5
Operations Monitoring 3.12/5
Reading Comprehension 3.0/5
Active Listening 3.0/5
Speaking 3.0/5
Complex Problem Solving 3.0/5
Writing 2.88/5
Critical Thinking 2.88/5
Active Learning 2.88/5
Coordination 2.88/5
Instructing 2.88/5
Operation and Control 2.88/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to understand the kind of profile this role rewards. It helps you judge whether this career looks like a stronger match than your current role, a nearby move worth exploring, or a broader path to compare more seriously.

Top passions

  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.
  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Artist: Creating original work and expressing ideas feels natural.

Common styles

Attention to Detail, Dependability, Cautiousness, Perseverance, Stress Tolerance

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Problem Sensitivity 3.62/5
Arm-Hand Steadiness 3.62/5
Multilimb Coordination 3.62/5
Trunk Strength 3.62/5
Near Vision 3.62/5
Oral Comprehension 3.25/5
Information Ordering 3.25/5
Visualization 3.25/5

Technologies & Tools

Enterprise resource planning ERP software Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word Spreadsheet software Word processing software

Work Environment & Strengths

Common Strengths for This Career

  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.41/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 4.34/5)
  • Cautiousness (High importance: 4.0/5)
  • Perseverance (High importance: 3.59/5)
  • Stress Tolerance (High importance: 3.59/5)

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How to Become One

Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful but is usually not required. Training is often provided on the job.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Boat Assembler Boat Builder Boat Carpenter Chopper Gun Operator Composite Bond Technician Composite Fitter Mechanic Composite Laminator Composite Mechanic Composite Technician Fabricator Fiber Placement Technician Fiber Winding Operator Fiberglass Boat Builder Fiberglass Boat Finisher Fiberglass Boat Maker Fiberglass Container Winding Operator Fiberglass Fabricator Fiberglass Finisher Fiberglass Grinder Fiberglass Laminator Fiberglass Luggage Molder Fiberglass Machine Operator Fiberglass Roller Fiberglass Ski Maker Fiberglass Technician Fiberglasser Gel-Coater Golf Cart Assembler Golf Cart Maker Lamination Builder Lamination Operator Lamination Technician Laminator Molder Roller Ski Maker

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Can this help if I want to stay in my field

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