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“Trouble Shooter” will maybe be replaced by robots.

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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 “Trouble Shooter”

Confer with engineering, supervisory, or manufacturing personnel to exchange technical information.
Install experimental parts or assemblies, such as hydraulic systems, electrical wiring, lubricants, or batteries into machines or mechanisms.
Establish work procedures for fabricating new structural products, using a variety of metalworking machines.
Separate scrap waste and related materials for reuse, recycling, or disposal.
Study sample parts, blueprints, drawings, or engineering information to determine methods or sequences of operations needed to fabricate products.
Install repaired parts into equipment or install new equipment.
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.
Test experimental models under simulated operating conditions for purposes such as development, standardization, or feasibility of design.
Operate equipment to verify operational efficiency.
Measure, examine, or test completed units to check for defects and ensure conformance to specifications, using precision instruments, such as micrometers.
Set up or operate metalworking, brazing, heat-treating, welding, or cutting equipment.
Maintain machine tools in proper operational condition.
Align and secure holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, or materials onto machines.
Prepare working sketches for the illustration of product appearance.
Confer with numerical control programmers to check and ensure that new programs or machinery will function properly and that output will meet specifications.
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.
Lay out, measure, and mark metal stock to display placement of cuts.
Evaluate machining procedures and recommend changes or modifications for improved efficiency or adaptability.
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.
Check work pieces to ensure that they are properly lubricated or cooled.
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.
Monitor the feed and speed of machines during the machining process.
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.
Program computers or electronic instruments, such as numerically controlled machine tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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