Maintaining bills of materials for products in manufacturing or assembly operations, you own the parent-child structure that tells production what to build and procurement what to buy — components, quantities, revisions, costing data.
A typical week tends to mix BOM creation, revision control, and engineering-change coordination — building structures for new SKUs, processing ECNs that update existing assemblies, reconciling between engineering drawings and the BOM in the ERP. Accuracy of structures and clean engineering-change throughput are the visible signals.
The harder part often lies in the gap between the engineering BOM and the manufacturing BOM — engineering thinks in design hierarchy; production thinks in build sequence; the BOM clerk navigates both. Variance across employers is sharp: aerospace and medical devices run rigid configuration-management discipline; consumer-product manufacturers move faster with looser structures.
This work tends to suit folks who enjoy structured data and don't mind tracking versions across years. ERP fluency (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Epicor) and the patience to follow engineering decisions through procurement and production anchor advancement. The trade-off is invisibility to the rest of the operation — when BOMs are clean, no one notices; when they're wrong, the production line stops.
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View all Admin & Office roles →Maintaining bills of materials for products in manufacturing or assembly operations, you own the parent-child structure that tells production what to build and procurement what to buy — components, quantities, revisions, costing data.
Median pay for a Bill of Materials Clerk (BOM Clerk) is about $47K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $36K to $65K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, Speaking, Active Listening, and Time Management.
Most people in this role hold an associate's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 0.4% through 2034, with roughly 417,500 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Accounting Assistant, Securities Clerk, and Account Clerk.
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