Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Move or install mobile homes or prefabricated buildings.
Most important skills
- Critical Thinking
- Operation and Control
- Quality Control Analysis
- Operations Monitoring
- Monitoring
- Coordination
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Active Listening
Key knowledge
- Building and Construction
- Public Safety and Security
- Customer and Personal Service
- Design
- Transportation
- Engineering and Technology
- Mathematics
- Mechanical
What the work involves
- Seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammers.
- Move and set up mobile homes or prefabricated buildings on owners' lots or at mobile home parks.
- Inspect, examine, and test the operation of parts or systems to evaluate operating condition and to determine if repairs are needed.
- Connect water hoses to inlet pipes of plumbing systems, and test operation of plumbing fixtures.
- Remove damaged exterior panels, repair and replace structural frame members, and seal leaks, using hand tools.
- List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, and diagrams.
- Confer with customers or read work orders to determine the nature and extent of damage to units.
- Install, repair, and replace units, fixtures, appliances, and other items and systems in mobile and modular homes, prefabricated buildings, or travel trailers, using hand tools or power tools.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Realistic, Conventional, Investigative.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Less than a High School Diploma (59.2% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (58.9%)
- On-the-job training
- None or short demonstration (37.7%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 2: Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Very low | Lower on contact with others than 87% of occupations compared | — |
| Dealing with the public | Very low | Lower on dealing with the public than 82% of occupations compared | 58% of surveyed respondents chose “Fairly important” |
| Teamwork | Very low | Lower on teamwork than 80% of occupations compared | — |
| Freedom to make decisions | Moderate | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 59% of occupations compared | — |
| Time pressure | High | Higher on time pressure than 78% of occupations compared | — |
| Conflict situations | Very high | Higher on conflict situations than 92% of occupations compared | 58% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | High | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 75% of occupations compared | — |
| Consequence of error | High | Higher on consequence of error than 60% of occupations compared | — |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: high
- Conflict situations: very high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: high
- Consequence of error: high
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Contact with others about half the time: 0%
- Contact with others most of the time: 2.6%
- Constant contact with others: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 15, Incumbent 06/2007
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 13.09%
- Fairly important: 57.71%
- Important: 2.14%
- Very important: 24.4%
- Extremely important: 2.66%
n = 15, Incumbent 06/2007
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 0.51%
- Fairly important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Important: 14.76%
- Very important: 0.78%
- Extremely important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 15, Incumbent 06/2007
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 11.86%
- Limited freedom: 0%
- Some freedom: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- A lot of freedom: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 15, Incumbent 06/2007
Time pressure
- Never: 1.63%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 0.54%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 12.14%
- Once a week or more but not every day: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Every day: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 15, Incumbent 06/2007
Conflict situations
- Never: 1.63%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 36.47%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 0.78%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 3.17%
- Every day: 57.94%
n = 15, Incumbent 06/2007
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 2.7%
- Once a month or more but not every week: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Once a week or more but not every day: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Every day: 1.04%
n = 15, Incumbent 06/2007
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Fairly serious: 13.59%
- Serious: 12.04%
- Very serious: 0.28%
- Extremely serious: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 15, Incumbent 06/2007
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