machinist
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Key facts
- Occupation.image
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- Occupation.caption
- Machinist, operating a metal lathe
- Occupation.type
- Vocational
- Occupation.activity_sector
- Industrial manufacturing
- Occupation.competencies
- Patience, steady hand, ability to read plans, attention to detail, physically strong
- Occupation.employment_field
- Industrial manufacturing
- Occupation.related_occupation
- Millwright
- Occupation.formation
- Industrial Training Institute, Apprenticeship
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Nature of work
- Related occupational titles
- Role in manufacturing
- Additive machining
- Materials commonly encountered by machinists
- Tools of the machinist
- See also
- References
- External links
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A machinist is a tradesperson or trained professional who operates machine tools, and has the ability to set up tools such as milling machines, grinders, lathes, and drilling machines.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “machinist” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.