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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 “Gear Machinist”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
CNC Consulting Machinists' Calculator
Kentech Kipware Studio
CCG Systems FASTER
CNC Mastercam
CNC TurboCAD/CAM
Microsoft Excel
Armchair Machinist software
Autodesk AutoCAD
Computer aided design CAD software
EditCNC
ERP software
Kentech Trig Kalculator
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Word
JETCAM