The phrase "a manufacturing worker" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is employed in the manufacturing industry, typically involved in the production of goods.
Example: "The company is looking to hire a manufacturing worker to help with the assembly line."
Alternatives: "a factory worker" or "an industrial worker."
One speaker noted that controlling for age and education a manufacturing worker earns around 7% more than a non-manufacturing peer.
A manufacturing worker in the United States earns four times the salary of a Mexican factory worker and 30 times that of a Mexican agricultural worker.
Of course, most economists enjoy greater job security than workers in other sectors, and it is hard to argue that an economics professor at MIT truely understands the plight of a manufacturing worker who has just lost his job.
He complained that the average chief executive in the United States made 400 times the pay of a manufacturing worker, while Japanese chief executives made only 11 times workers' wages.
When a manager identified a manufacturing worker with promise, the company would teach him how to dress, how to speak to clients, and how to service products.
In fact, there are currently two million jobs going unfulfilled in the manufacturing sector, largely due to an aging workforce — the average age of a manufacturing worker is almost 45, two and a half years above the national non-farm median — and negligible interest in those jobs from younger generations.
According to HSBC, a bank, in 2000 it cost just $0.32 an hour to employ a Chinese manufacturing worker, against $1.51 for a Mexican one.
Over that period, productivity rose by almost 97percentt and hourly compensation of a non-supervisory manufacturing worker rose by a little over 91percentt.
As a result, the average German manufacturing worker costs $28 an hour to hire, compared with $18 for an American or $17 for a Frenchman.
The jobs that are getting created are not necessarily jobs that a 55-year-old manufacturing worker wants to come and do.
She said he had been hired last September as a manufacturing line worker, laid off earlier this year because of a production slowdown and rehired six weeks ago.
