How do they match: Machinists

  • Lab Machinist
  • Laboratory Machinist
  • Maintenance Specialist
  • Mechanical Lab Tech
  • Mechanical Laboratory Technician
  • Tool and Die Machinist
  • Tool and Die Maker

  • 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.

  • Confer with numerical control programmers to check and ensure that new programs or machinery will function properly and that output will meet specifications.
  • Design fixtures, tooling, or experimental parts to meet special engineering needs.
  • Machine parts to specifications, using machine tools, such as lathes, milling machines, shapers, or grinders.
  • 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.
  • Set up, adjust, or operate basic or specialized machine tools used to perform precision machining operations.

  • Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.