How do they match: Machinists

  • Tool and Die Machinist
  • Tool and Die Maker

  • Check work pieces to ensure that they are properly lubricated or cooled.
  • Measure, examine, or test completed units to check for defects and ensure conformance to specifications, using precision instruments, such as micrometers.
  • Confer with numerical control programmers to check and ensure that new programs or machinery will function properly and that output will meet specifications.
  • Lay out, measure, and mark metal stock to display placement of cuts.
  • Study sample parts, blueprints, drawings, or engineering information to determine methods or sequences of operations needed to fabricate products.

  • Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
  • Measure materials to mark reference points, cutting lines, or other indicators.
  • Test materials, solutions, or samples.