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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 “Master Machinist”

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

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

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