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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 “Laboratory Machinist”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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