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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/Machine Builder”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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