How to become a Toolmaker or Related Worker

Official title: Toolmakers and Related Workers

Toolmakers and related workers make and repair metal tools, dies, templates, keys, sporting firearms, engine or machine parts and other metal articles by hand.

Main tasks

• Make, maintain and repair dies, jigs, gauges and fixtures by hand
• Install and replace parts of jigs, fixtures and gauges
• Mark out metal stock
• Make engine or machine parts
• Repair and adjust sporting firearms and other small arms
• Make, repair and install locks and their parts

Ways in

• Technical college: Technician certificate: Mould and die making. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 184 模具. Tested at grade B (乙級), grade C (丙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Average pay: NT$485,000 a year
• Demand for Craft and related trades jobs is projected at about 1,519,000 in 2024 and about 1,515,000 in 2030. (-0.3%)
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Blacksmiths, Hammersmiths and Forging Press Workers
• Metal Working Machine Tool Setters and Operators
• Metal Polishers and Tool Sharpeners

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Questions people ask

How do I become a Toolmaker or Related Worker?

Ways in include: Technician certificate: Mould and die making.

How much does a Toolmaker or Related Worker earn in Taiwan?

Average pay is NT$485,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).

Is a Toolmaker or Related Worker a growing career in Taiwan?

Demand for this job family is projected to change -0.3% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Will AI change the work of a Toolmaker or Related Worker?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026