Job Description:

• 1) Tends one or more previously set up gear-cutting machines, such as gear shapers, hobbers, finishers, and generators, to machine spline or gear teeth on metal blanks: Positions and secures workpiece on arbor, or in chuck, fixture, or automatic feeding mechanism.

• 2) Starts machine and flow of coolant and observes operation.

• 3) Adjusts machine stops and changes worn cutter, using wrenches.

• 4) Verifies conformance to specifications, using fixed gauges, micrometers, and preset dial indicators.

• 5) May machine plastics or other nonmetallic materials.

• 6) May be required to have experience with particular material, product, or size, type, or trade name of machine.