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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 “Metal Machinist”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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