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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 “Instrument Maker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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