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Food, wood and textiles
Wood treater
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Key facts
+0.5%jobs, 2025 to 2035
United StatesThis job is hiring in the United States; its exposure to AI is low. AI exposure: very low according to the ILO, low according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +0.5% (BLS).
The job
Wood treaters (ISCO 7521). Wood treaters season, preserve and treat wood and lumber manually or using wood treatment equipment such as kilns and tanks.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
24 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- dry kiln operator
- dry kiln specialist
- dry kiln technician
- drying kiln operator
- drying kiln specialist
- drying kiln technician
- wood drying kiln operative
- wood drying kiln operator
- wood drying kiln specialist
- wood drying kiln technician
- wood drying kiln worker
- wood treater
- wood treating machine operator
- wood treating machine specialist
- wood treating machine technician
- wood treating machine worker
- wood treatment operative
- wood treatment operator
- wood treatment specialist
- wood treatment technician
- wood treatment worker
- wood-drying kiln operator
- wood-drying kiln specialist
- wood-drying kiln technician
Training
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Gauges
Risk 3/5 · Moderate
AI exposureLowBLS AI exposure category "low" (2026), higher than the ILO 2025 index (very low)
Employment outlookDeclineBLS, 2025-2035 projections (Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders)
Hiring difficultyNot availableNo US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job
PayLowBLS, 2025 median annual wage: $44,810
EntryVery quickBLS, typical education needed for entry
No US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job: this gauge stays empty. How countries are compared
Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.