Annual Salary
£20,000 to £27,000
Average UK salary in 2023 was £34,963
(source Office for National Statistics)
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Window fabricators make windows, doors, glass panels and curtain walls for homes and businesses.
Average UK salary in 2023 was £34,963
(source Office for National Statistics)
You could work: between 8am and 6pm; flexibly
There will be
1.1% fewer Window fabricator jobs in 2027.
As a window fabricator, you could:
You may need to wear protective clothing.
You could work in a factory, in a workshop, at a client's business or at a client's home.
Your working environment may be physically active.
You can get into this job through:
You could apply to do a Fenestration Fabricator Level 2 Intermediate Apprenticeship with a manufacturing company.
This takes 1 year and 6 months to complete.
To get onto an apprenticeship, you'll find it useful to have:
You could begin work as a general production worker or labourer with a window manufacturer and work your way up. There are courses you can do while working to help you get into more skilled fabrication jobs.
You could also start as a window fitter and move into fabrication work.
You can apply directly for jobs. Employers set their own entry requirements, though you'll need maths skills for taking measurements along with good practical skills.
Experience of general manufacturing and trades like window fitting or joinery may also be useful.
Further Information
You can get more details about careers in window fabrication from Building Our Skills.
With experience, you could move into supervisory or quality control positions. You might become a warehouse, production or trade counter manager.
You could also use your skills to work in other areas of manufacturing, like CNC machining.
You'll need: