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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 and Repairer”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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