Program Codes: 
10268,20820
Employment Percentage: 
12.535522576571
SOC ID: 
17-3098
SOC Title: 
Calibration Technologists and Technicians and Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other
ONET ID: 
17-3029.09
ONET Concat ID: 
17302909
Median Salary: 
61379.29
Interest Area Term: 
Ed Level High School: 
26.09
Ed Level Certificate: 
26.09
Ed Level Some College: 
8.7
Ed Level Associates: 
21.74
Ed Level Bachelors: 
17.389999
Ed Level Masters: 
0
Ed Level Doctor: 
0
Typical Ed Level: 
a high school diploma or less
Description: 

Set up, test, and adjust manufacturing machinery or equipment, using any combination of electrical, electronic, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or computer technologies.

Core Tasks: 

<ul><li>Set up and verify the functionality of safety equipment.</li><li>Adhere to all applicable regulations, policies, and procedures for health, safety, and environmental compliance.</li><li>Calibrate or adjust equipment to ensure quality production, using tools such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, protractors, or ring gauges.</li><li>Monitor and adjust production processes or equipment for quality and productivity.</li><li>Inspect finished products for quality and adherence to customer specifications.</li><li>Troubleshoot problems with equipment, devices, or products.</li><li>Test products or subassemblies for functionality or quality.</li><li>Provide advice or training to other technicians.</li><li>Set up and operate production equipment in accordance with current good manufacturing practices and standard operating procedures.</li><li>Select cleaning materials, tools, or equipment.</li><li>Plan and lay out work to meet production and schedule requirements.</li><li>Assist engineers in developing, building, or testing prototypes or new products, processes, or procedures.</li><li>Install new manufacturing equipment.</li><li>Start up and shut down processing equipment.</li><li>Prepare and assemble materials.</li><li>Keep manufacturing production logs.</li><li>Measure and record data associated with operating equipment.</li><li>Build product subassemblies or final assemblies.</li><li>Prepare production documents, such as standard operating procedures, manufacturing batch records, inventory reports, or productivity reports.</li><li>Provide production, progress, or changeover reports to shift supervisors.</li><li>Maintain inventory of job materials.</li><li>Clean production equipment or work areas.</li></ul>

Start Annual Earnings: 
35429.69
Top Annual Earnings: 
104970.02
Title Slug: 
manufacturing-production-technicians