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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 “Machine Fitter”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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