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Job Description

Set up and operate a variety of machine tools to produce precision parts and instruments. Includes precision instrument makers who fabricate, modify, or repair mechanical instruments. May also fabricate and modify parts to make or repair machine tools or maintain industrial machines, applying knowledge of mechanics, mathematics, metal properties, layout, and machining procedures.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-4041.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 43,220.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 20.00
Currently, there are 391,120 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Machinists”.

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Tasks for “Conventional Machinist”

Dispose of scrap or waste material in accordance with company policies and environmental regulations.
Measure, examine, or test completed units to check for defects and ensure conformance to specifications, using precision instruments, such as micrometers.
Operate equipment to verify operational efficiency.
Maintain machine tools in proper operational condition.
Diagnose machine tool malfunctions to determine need for adjustments or repairs.
Align and secure holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, or materials onto machines.
Establish work procedures for fabricating new structural products, using a variety of metalworking machines.
Lay out, measure, and mark metal stock to display placement of cuts.
Monitor the feed and speed of machines during the machining process.
Set up, adjust, or operate basic or specialized machine tools used to perform precision machining operations.
Install experimental parts or assemblies, such as hydraulic systems, electrical wiring, lubricants, or batteries into machines or mechanisms.
Evaluate machining procedures and recommend changes or modifications for improved efficiency or adaptability.
Fit and assemble parts to make or repair machine tools.
Confer with numerical control programmers to check and ensure that new programs or machinery will function properly and that output will meet specifications.
Test experimental models under simulated operating conditions for purposes such as development, standardization, or feasibility of design.
Install repaired parts into equipment or install new equipment.
Support metalworking projects from planning and fabrication through assembly, inspection, and testing, using knowledge of machine functions, metal properties and mathematics.
Advise clients about the materials being used for finished products.
Prepare working sketches for the illustration of product appearance.
Design fixtures, tooling, or experimental parts to meet special engineering needs.
Dismantle machines or equipment, using hand tools or power tools to examine parts for defects and replace defective parts where needed.
Program computers or electronic instruments, such as numerically controlled machine tools.
Confer with engineering, supervisory, or manufacturing personnel to exchange technical information.
Check work pieces to ensure that they are properly lubricated or cooled.
Set up or operate metalworking, brazing, heat-treating, welding, or cutting equipment.
Machine parts to specifications, using machine tools, such as lathes, milling machines, shapers, or grinders.
Calculate dimensions or tolerances, using instruments such as micrometers or vernier calipers.
Separate scrap waste and related materials for reuse, recycling, or disposal.
Study sample parts, blueprints, drawings, or engineering information to determine methods or sequences of operations needed to fabricate products.

Related Technology & Tools

Vernier calipers
Milling machines
Radius gauges
Putty knives
Screw pitch gauges
Hex keys
Welding lenses
Dial calipers
Valve grinding machines
Phillips head screwdrivers
Edge finders
Centrifugal spin casters
Radial drill presses
Machine shop rigging equipment
Combination pliers
Metal shears
Machinists' squares
Vernier bevel protractors
Portable welding equipment
Ratchet sets
Shielded arc welding tools
Boring bars
Personal computers
Shears
Bandsaws
Cold chisels
Desktop computers
Sledgehammers
Surface grinding machines
Laser printers
Flat files
Ladders
Handheld welders
Radial drills
Tube benders
Milling vises
Vertical milling machines
Undercut tools
Sensitive drill presses
Forklifts
Needlenose pliers
Boring tools
Spirit levels
Power drills
Vernier gear tooth calipers
Buffers
Metal spray equipment
Knee mills
Oxyacetylene welding equipment
Welding shields
Computerized numerical control CNC machining centers
Surface gauges
Plasma welders
Cylindrical grinders
Inside spring calipers
Grinding wheel arbors
Brass hammers
Aviation snips
Platforms
Punches
Horizontal lathes
Gauges
Pipe wrenches
Pipe threaders
Hermaphrodite calipers
Pillar drill machines
Broachers
Anvils
Combination wrenches
Soldering equipment
Metal cutting taps
Screwdrivers
Vertical turret lathes VTL
Heat-treating equipment
Reamers
Hand saws
Hacksaws
Steel rules
Grinding dogs
Half-round files
Torches
Prick punches
Tongs
Telescoping gauges
Brazing equipment
Horizontal boring bars
Parallel blocks
Horizontal mills
Vernier height gauges
Composition hammers
Workshop cranes
Outside micrometers
Magnetic retrievers
Threading machines
Brake presses
Combination drills
Spindle blade screwdrivers
Engine lathes
Steel wedges
Rubber mallets
Machinists' hammers
Angled feeler gauges
Shapers
Thread gauges
Hydraulic presses
Single-cut mill saw files
Sandblasters
Power sanders
Arbor presses
Feeler gauges
Deburring tools
Wedges
Computerized numerical control CNC turning lathes
Chippers
Adjustable wrenches
Beverly shears
Swaging tools
Square chisels
Cutoff saws
Flywheel lathes
Side cutting pliers
Hand clamps
Staging equipment
Breaker lathes
Inside micrometers
Outside spring calipers
Micrometers
Drum lathes
3-axis computerized numerical control CNC machines
Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment
Channel lock pliers
Calipers
Crankshaft grinders
Turning lathes
Angle plates
Ball peen hammers
Center drills
Milling angle form cutters
Metal inert gas MIG welders
Planer gauges
Pry bars
Resurfacing machines
Planers
Chamfer tools
Turret lathes
Marking blocks
Full face shields
Cold saws
Hex wrenches
Personal digital assistants PDA
Scribers
Chucks
Shims
Power hacksaws
Lathes
Dial indicators
Sharpening equipment
Binocular light compound microscopes
Sine bars
V blocks
Grinders
Utility knives
Cylinder honers
Height gauges
Socket wrench sets
Jointers
Multi-axis computerized numerical control CNC machines
Ring gauges

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