Job Description:

• 1) Tends milling machines that mill surfaces of metal workpieces according to specifications: Positions and secures workpiece in fixture or feeding device.

• 2) Starts machine, and turns handwheel to feed workpiece to cutter or vice versa, or engages automatic feeding mechanism.

• 3) Turns valve handle to direct flow of coolant against cutter and workpiece.

• 4) Observes machine operation, and removes and inspects machined workpiece to verify conformance to specifications, using instruments, such as gauges, calipers, micrometers, and templates.

• 5) May change worn cutters, using wrenches.

• 6) Records production output.

• 7) May tend machine that mills workpiece according to programmed cycle.

• 8) May turn controls to adjust feed rate of workpiece or speed of cutting tool.

• 9) May mill nonmetallic materials.