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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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