Boring machine operator

Also searched as: Operador de taladradora

Code 7223.1

What does a Boring machine operator do?

Boring machine operators prepare, operate, and maintain single or multiple spindle machines using a boring bar with a hardened, rotary, multipointed cutting tool in order to enlarge an existing hole in a fabricated workpiece.

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Essential skills

Knowledge

  • quality standards
  • types of drill bits
  • types of boring heads
  • types of metal

Skills and competences

  • supply machine
  • supply machine with appropriate tools
  • monitor automated machines
  • ensure equipment availability
  • set up the controller of a machine
  • operate precision measuring equipment
  • tend boring machine
  • troubleshoot
  • remove inadequate workpieces
  • remove processed workpiece
  • perform test run

Transversal competences

  • dispose of cutting waste material

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences