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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 “Journeyman Machinist”

Support metalworking projects from planning and fabrication through assembly, inspection, and testing, using knowledge of machine functions, metal properties and mathematics.
Evaluate machining procedures and recommend changes or modifications for improved efficiency or adaptability.
Install experimental parts or assemblies, such as hydraulic systems, electrical wiring, lubricants, or batteries into machines or mechanisms.
Dispose of scrap or waste material in accordance with company policies and environmental regulations.
Diagnose machine tool malfunctions to determine need for adjustments or repairs.
Advise clients about the materials being used for finished products.
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.
Align and secure holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, or materials onto machines.
Set up or operate metalworking, brazing, heat-treating, welding, or cutting equipment.
Fit and assemble parts to make or repair machine tools.
Separate scrap waste and related materials for reuse, recycling, or disposal.
Confer with numerical control programmers to check and ensure that new programs or machinery will function properly and that output will meet specifications.
Confer with engineering, supervisory, or manufacturing personnel to exchange technical information.
Operate equipment to verify operational efficiency.
Program computers or electronic instruments, such as numerically controlled machine tools.
Establish work procedures for fabricating new structural products, using a variety of metalworking machines.
Study sample parts, blueprints, drawings, or engineering information to determine methods or sequences of operations needed to fabricate products.
Prepare working sketches for the illustration of product appearance.
Dismantle machines or equipment, using hand tools or power tools to examine parts for defects and replace defective parts where needed.
Check work pieces to ensure that they are properly lubricated or cooled.
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.
Monitor the feed and speed of machines during the machining process.
Measure, examine, or test completed units to check for defects and ensure conformance to specifications, using precision instruments, such as micrometers.
Lay out, measure, and mark metal stock to display placement of cuts.
Calculate dimensions or tolerances, using instruments such as micrometers or vernier calipers.
Design fixtures, tooling, or experimental parts to meet special engineering needs.
Maintain machine tools in proper operational condition.

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

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