Screw machine operator

Code 7223.19

Screw machine operators set up and tend mechanical screw machines designed to manufacture (threaded) screws out of processed metal workpieces, specifically small- to medium-sized ones that have been turned by a lathe and turn machine.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • screw machine parts
  • quality standards
  • quality and cycle time optimisation
  • screw manufacturing processes
  • types of metal
  • screw types

Skills and competences

  • supply machine
  • supply machine with appropriate tools
  • monitor moving workpiece in a machine
  • monitor automated machines
  • ensure equipment availability
  • set up the controller of a machine
  • tend screw 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