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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 “Maintenance Specialist”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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