Occupation Atlastool and die maker
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/ecac98ea-9fc3-4475-9b23-8af94f41603d
tool and die maker
Tool and die makers operate a variety of equipment and machinery designed to create metal tools and dies, which are both needed in several areas of manufacturing, and produce these tools in all steps of the production process. They design the tools and dies, then cut and shape them to size and finish them by manually operated machine tools, power tools, hand tools, or programming and tending CNC tool and die making machines.
Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RCIRealistic · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic6.94
- C Conventional4.19
- I Investigative2.98
- A Artistic1.90
- S Social1.00
- E Enterprising1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Tool and Die Makers (51-4111.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (22)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adjust cut sizes
- apply precision metalworking techniques
- consult technical resources
- cut metal products
- dies
- ensure equipment availability
- join metals
- machine tools
- maintain edged hand tools
- mechanical tools
- operate file for deburring
- operate grinding hand tools
- operate metal polishing equipment
- perform product testing
- perform test run
- prepare pieces for joining
- quality standards
- read standard blueprints
- smooth burred surfaces
- troubleshoot
- types of metal
- wear appropriate protective gear
Optional (32)
- CAD software
- adjust temperature gauges
- apply polishing lubricants
- characteristics of precious metals
- cutting technologies
- deburring processes
- ensure correct metal temperature
- ferrous metal processing
- forging processes
- imitation jewellery
- keep records of work progress
- manufacturing of tools
- metal forming technologies
- metal joining technologies
- monitor automated machines
- monitor gauge
- monitor moving workpiece in a machine
- operate precision measuring equipment
- perform machine maintenance
- program a CNC controller
- quality and cycle time optimisation
- record production data for quality control
- remove inadequate workpieces
- remove processed workpiece
- remove scale from metal workpiece
- set up the controller of a machine
- solve technical problems
- supply machine
- supply machine with appropriate tools
- tend deburring machine
- types of metal manufacturing processes
- use CAM software
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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