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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 Tool and Die”

Support metalworking projects from planning and fabrication through assembly, inspection, and testing, using knowledge of machine functions, metal properties and mathematics.
Set up or operate metalworking, brazing, heat-treating, welding, or cutting equipment.
Align and secure holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, or materials onto machines.
Establish work procedures for fabricating new structural products, using a variety of metalworking machines.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lay out, measure, and mark metal stock to display placement of cuts.
Check work pieces to ensure that they are properly lubricated or cooled.
Fit and assemble parts to make or repair machine tools.
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.
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.
Dispose of scrap or waste material in accordance with company policies and environmental regulations.
Program computers or electronic instruments, such as numerically controlled machine tools.
Design fixtures, tooling, or experimental parts to meet special engineering needs.
Dismantle machines or equipment, using hand tools or power tools to examine parts for defects and replace defective parts where needed.
Maintain machine tools in proper operational condition.
Operate equipment to verify operational efficiency.
Monitor the feed and speed of machines during the machining process.
Separate scrap waste and related materials for reuse, recycling, or disposal.
Install repaired parts into equipment or install new equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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