Manufacturer, tools

Toolmakers and related workers make and repair, to customer order, specialised tools, sporting guns, locks, machine dies and other metal articles, using hand tools and metalworking machines for precision metalwork.

• reading and interpreting engineering drawings and specifications of tools, dies, templates or patterns;
• preparing templates and sketches and determining work processes;
• visualising and computing dimensions, sizes, shapes and fitting tolerances according to specifications;
• positioning, securing and measuring metal stock or castings for machining;
• setting up, operating and maintaining conventional and computer numerically controlled metalworking machines to cut, turn, mill, drill, grind or otherwise shape workpieces to prescribed dimensions and tolerances;
• assembling and fitting parts to make and repair jigs, fixtures and gauges;
• repairing and modifying sporting guns and other small arms;
• making, assembling, fitting and repairing parts of locking devices and locks;
• making and repairing metal patterns for making foundry moulds;
• laying out lines and reference points on metal stock to guide other workers who cut, turn, mill, grind or otherwise shape metal;
• checking the dimensions and tolerances of finished parts for conformity with specifications using precision measuring instruments, and testing products.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Toolmaker
• Maker, measuring instruments
• Gunsmith
• Die maker
• Patternmaker, metal castings
• Fitter (locksmith)
• Locksmith