Job Description:

• 1) Repairs salvable mechanical parts of machines and equipment: Dismantles machinery, equipment, and parts, using handtools, such as hacksaws, files, reamers, wrenches and screwdrivers.

• 2) Inspects parts to determine salvageability or method of repairing or reworking parts.

• 3) Sets up and operates metalworking tools, such as engine lathes, milling, drilling, grinding, polishing, and buffing machines to repair parts.

• 4) Files, taps, reams, bends, and straightens, or uses other methods to recondition parts, using handtools.

• 5) Verifies dimensions and tolerances, using blueprints, scale, and precision-measuring instruments.

• 6) May reassemble parts, using handtools and power tools.

• 7) May direct cleaning, storing, and issuing of reclaimed parts, and packing of usable materials, such as metal sweepings.

• 8) May arrange for sale of scrap.