Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
ProductionAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic with an AI automation risk score of 0%. Analysis includes 18 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work environment requires human interaction and presence
Responsibilities and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
- Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
Required Abilities
- Arm-Hand Steadiness
- Control Precision
- Near Vision
- Finger Dexterity
- Oral Comprehension
Key Tasks
Position, secure, and align cutting tools in toolholders on machines, using hand tools, and verify their positions with measuring instruments.
Adjust machine controls and change tool settings to keep dimensions within specified tolerances.
Move controls to set cutting speeds and depths and feed rates, and to position tools in relation to workpieces.
Study blueprints, layouts or charts, and job orders for information on specifications and tooling instructions, and to determine material requirements and operational sequences.
Inspect sample workpieces to verify conformance with specifications, using instruments such as gauges, micrometers, and dial indicators.
Replace worn tools, and sharpen dull cutting tools and dies, using bench grinders or cutter-grinding machines.
Move toolholders manually or by turning handwheels, or engage automatic feeding mechanisms to feed tools to and along workpieces.
Compute unspecified dimensions and machine settings, using knowledge of metal properties and shop mathematics.
Upskilling Courses
Current Job Openings
Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data