How do they match: Machinists

  • Set up and operate a variety of machine tools to produce precision parts and instruments out of metal. 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.

  • Align and secure holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, or materials onto machines.
  • Establish work procedures for fabricating new structural products, using a variety of metalworking machines.
  • Lay out, measure, and mark metal stock to display placement of cuts.
  • Set up or operate metalworking, brazing, heat-treating, welding, or cutting equipment.
  • Study sample parts, blueprints, drawings, or engineering information to determine methods or sequences of operations needed to fabricate products.
  • Support metalworking projects from planning and fabrication through assembly, inspection, and testing, using knowledge of machine functions, metal properties, and mathematics.

  • Measure materials to mark reference points, cutting lines, or other indicators.
  • Operate cutting equipment.
  • Prepare fabrics or materials for processing or production.