Long Description

General Characteristics and Purpose

Performs a wide range of fabrication operating activities in an industrial plant using a specialty technique or a variety of techniques (painting, grinding, welding, drilling, deburring, cutting, turning, milling, lasering, polishing, ...).

Controls work pace and progress on equipment, requiring awareness of links with other process areas. Operates within established work routines and occasional supervisory checks.

Representative Activities

• Works from engineering drawings, sketches, and other specifications.
• Operates machines or equipment, which involves setting up and making adjustments to regulate factors such as temperature, pressure, flow, and reaction of materials.
• Controls machine time, materials, and possibly other operators in other key processes. Operates within general work instructions and intermittent supervisory checks.
• Checks finished part against blueprint, debugs.