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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 “Electrical Instrument Maker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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