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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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