Rockingham Community College

On-the-job Training

• Machine Safety & Performance Standard - Calculate dimensions or tolerances, using instruments such as micrometers or vernier calipers.
• Machine Safety & Performance Standard - Machine parts to specifications, using machine tools, such as lathes, milling machines, shapers, or grinders.
• Machine Safety & Performance Standard - Set up adjust or operate basic or specialized machine tools used to perform precision machining operations.
• Machine Safety & Performance Standard - Align and secure holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, or materials onto machines.
• Machine Safety & Performance Standard - Measure, examine, or test completed units to check for defects and ensure conformance to specifications, using precision instruments, such as micrometers.
• Machine Safety Procedures And Requirements - Dispose of scrap or waste material in accordance with company policies and environmental regulations
• Machine Safety Procedures And Requirements - Separate scrap or waste and related materials for reuse, recycling or disposal.
• Machine Safety Procedures And Requirements - Carry out assigned responsibilities while adhering to safe practices in accordance with OSHA requirements and guidelines. Document safety activities as required, include appropriate personal protective equipmen
• Machine Safety Procedures And Requirements - Monitor the feed and speed of machines during the machining process.
• Machine Safety Procedures And Requirements - Maintain machine tools in proper operational condition.
• Process Control - Study sample parts, blueprints, drawings or engineering information to determine methods or sequences of operation needed to fabricate products.
• Process Control - Operate equipment to verify operational efficiency.
• Process Control - Check work pieces to ensure that they are properly lubricated or cooled.
• Process Control - Program computers or electronic instruments, such as numerically controlled machine tools.
• Process Control - Diagnose machine tool malfunctions to determine need for adjustments or repairs
• Performance Standards - Confer with engineering, supervisory, or manufacturing personnel to exchange technical information.
• Performance Standards - Lay out, measure and mark metal stock to display placement of cuts.
• Performance Standards - Fit and assemble parts to make or repair machine tools.
• Performance Standards - Evaluate machining procedures and recommend changes or modifications for improved efficiency or adaptability.
• Performance Standards - Dismantle machines or equipment, using hand tools or power tools to examine parts for defects and replace defective parts were needed.
• Production Performance - Install repaired parts into equipment or install new equipment.
• Production Performance - Design fixtures, tooling, or experimental parts to meet special engineering needs.
• Production Performance - Confer with numerical control programmers to check and ensure that new programs or machinery will function properly and that output will meet specifications.
• Production Performance - Support metalworking projects from planning and fabrication through assembly, inspection, and testing, using knowledge of machine functions, metal properties and mathematics.
• Production Performance - Establish work procedures for fabricating new structural products, using a variety of metalworking machines.