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Career Details :: Millwrights
Description
Install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, or other drawings.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Repairs and lubricates machines and equipment.
- Lays out mounting holes, using measuring instruments, and drills holes with power drill.
- Dismantles machines, using hammers, wrenches, crowbars, and other hand tools.
- Signals crane operator to lower basic assembly units to bedplate, and aligns unit to centerline.
- Assembles machines, and bolts, welds, rivets, or otherwise fastens them to foundation or other structures, using hand tools and power tools.
- Bolts parts, such as side and deck plates, jaw plates, and journals, to basic assembly unit.
- Constructs foundation for machines, using hand tools and building materials such as wood, cement, and steel.
- Inserts shims, adjusts tension on nuts and bolts, or positions parts, using hand tools and measuring instruments, to set specified clearances between moving and stationary parts.
- Replaces defective parts of machine or adjusts clearances and alignment of moving parts.
- Moves machinery and equipment, using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.
- Operates engine lathe to grind, file, and turn machine parts to dimensional specifications.
- Aligns machines and equipment, using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.
- Dismantles machinery and equipment for shipment to installation site, usually performing installation and maintenance work as part of team.
- Assembles and installs equipment, using hand tools and power tools.
- Attaches moving parts and subassemblies to basic assembly unit, using hand tools and power tools.
- Levels bedplate and establishes centerline, using straightedge, levels, and transit.
- Shrink-fits bushings, sleeves, rings, liners, gears, and wheels to specified items, using portable gas heating equipment.
- Positions steel beams to support bedplates of machines and equipment, using blueprints and schematic drawings, to determine work procedures.
- Installs robot and modifies its program, using teach pendant.
- Connects power unit to machines or steam piping to equipment, and tests unit to evaluate its mechanical operation.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Repairing & Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Consequence of Error
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Hazardous Equipment
Related Majors
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