Job Description:

• 1) Assembles internal combustion engines according to standard procedures, using handtools, power wrenches, and gauges, performing any of following operations on assembly line: Positions and bolts crankcase, block, and trunion support together to form basic unit of engine, using wrenches, hammer, and power hoist.

• 2) Mounts crankshaft and camshaft to bearings and tightens bearing caps, using power wrench.

• 3) Presses gears, sheave, flywheel, or sprocket to shafts, using hand or hydraulic press, and locks them with keys and pins.

• 4) Inserts cylinder sleeves into engine block or casing and fits piston and connecting rod assembly into cylinder and bolts it to crankshaft.

• 5) Aligns engine parts, such as camshaft and crankshaft gears, and sets timing and clearances between fixed or moving parts, using aligning gauges, dial indicator, feeler gauges, and timing light.

• 6) Examines parts or observes movement of completed assemblies to detect malfunction, and discards or replaces defective parts or assemblies.

• 7) Bolts subassemblies, such as cylinder head, camshaft assembly, fuel pump, carburetor, governor, and water pump, to engine, using torque wrench and other handtools.

• 8) Flares and connects copper or brass tubing for lubricating and cooling systems, using flaring tools and wrenches.

• 9) May cut and bend tubing to conform to curvature of engine, using bending fixtures and tubing cutters.

• 10) May lap cylinder counterbore and valve seats to seat cylinder sleeves and valves, using hand lapping tool and compound.

• 11) May disassemble, polish, buff, and reassemble motors for demonstration purposes and be designated Assembler, Show Motor.

• 12) May be designated according to type of engine assembled as Diesel-Engine Assembler; Gasoline-Engine Assembler; Motorcycle-Engine Assembler; Outboard-Motor Assembler.