Job Description:

• 1) Assembles machines, equipment, and their subassemblies, such as baling presses, stokers, blowers, compression pumps, and food wrapping machines, according to customer's needs, following blueprints and other written and verbal specifications: Plans assembly procedures, following specifications and using knowledge gained by experience.

• 2) Removes small quantities of metal, using hand files or portable grinders, to clean parts or to produce close fit between parts.

• 3) Drills, taps, or reams holes, using drill press or portable drill.

• 4) Aligns components, and bolts, screws, or rivets them together, using handtools or portable powered tools.

• 5) Installs moving parts, such as shafts, levers, or bearings, and works them to test free movement.

• 6) May bend and install pipe for hydraulic systems.

• 7) May align and mesh gears in gearbox to assemble system of gears.

• 8) May test or assist in testing operation of completed product.