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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 Apprentice”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

Autodesk AutoCAD
Armchair Machinist software
CCG Systems FASTER
Microsoft Outlook
EditCNC
CNC Consulting Machinists' Calculator
CNC Mastercam
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Office
Kentech Kipware Studio
Computer aided design CAD software
Microsoft Excel
CNC TurboCAD/CAM
JETCAM
Kentech Trig Kalculator
ERP software
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software