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Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners

  • Manufacturing

Tasks

What tasks do Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners perform?

  • Monitor machine operations to determine whether adjustments are necessary, stopping machines when problems occur.

  • Inspect, feel, and measure workpieces to ensure that surfaces and dimensions meet specifications.

  • Select and mount grinding wheels on machines, according to specifications, using hand tools and applying knowledge of abrasives and grinding procedures.

  • Compute numbers, widths, and angles of cutting tools, micrometers, scales, and gauges, and adjust tools to produce specified cuts.


Knowledge

What do Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners need to know?

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.


Skills

What skills do Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners need?

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

  • Operation and Control

    Controlling operations of equipment or systems.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.



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