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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 Apprentice”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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