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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 “Machinist A”

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

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

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