SENIOR MACHINIST
Senior Machinist is a competitive local-government title, the kind you test for: the exam result, not a hiring manager's pick, decides where you land in line.
What it takes is 4 years of relevant experience.
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Senior Machinist is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Examples of work
- Takes the lead over one or more machinists by reviewing the work performed, answering questions dealing with work problems and by giving guidance and direction to other machinists.
- Makes special parts for automobiles, trucks, institutional and farm equipment and various types of road building and maintenance equipment.
- Installs, repairs and/or makes bearings shafts, rods, housing, discs, handles, bushings, hubs, keyways, gears and other parts for machines and equipment.
- Sets up, adjusts, repairs, maintains and operates lathes, planers, shapers, milling machines, grinders, power hacksaws, boring equipment, and specialized machines.
- Prepares and/or works from specifications, blueprints and sketches in accordance with accepted trade practices.
- Makes precision measurements using micrometers, calipers, gauges and pre-tractors
- Makes time and materials estimates.
- Inspects work in progress and completed work.
- Machines worn shafts, gears, pistons, crank shafts and other specialized parts, and does the work involved in the re-bushing of bearings, the re-boring of cylinders and engines, and the assembling and finishing of tools and equipment required for experimental work,
- Oils, cleans and installs new equipment
- As may be required, instructs inmates and/or others in the operation of the various machines used in making and repairing parts for equipment and machinery and takes the measures necessary to insure their safety, custody, welfare and work progress.
- Keeps records of equipment, materials and supplies used, time spent and work completed.
- May be required to undergo fire training classes.
Experience
Four years of comprehensive experience in work involving the set up and operation of lathes, milling machines, grinders, drill presses, shapers, and/or other specialized machines and tools used in machine shop work.
License
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Wide knowledge of the procedures, materials, equipment and tools used in making special parts for automotive vehicles, highway maintenance machinery and equipment, and kitchen, laundry, and bakery machinery.
- Wide knowledge of the competent and safe operation of lathes, shapers, drill presses, milling machines, planers, and other specialized machinery.
- Ability to understand, remember and carry out written and oral directions and assignments.
- Ability to analyze assigned machine shop work and develop an orderly work plan.
- Ability to work harmoniously with associates and those interested in or concerned with the work of the machine shop.
- Ability to inspect machinery and equipment of varied types and maintain it in good operating condition.
- Ability to operate lathes, drilling machines, grinders, drill presses and other specialized machines.
- Ability to read blue prints and work from sketches and drawings.
- Ability to requisition, store, safeguard, record and use Department equipment, materials and supplies.
- Ability to observe established safety procedures.
- Ability to maintain needed records of equipment, materials and supplies used, time spent, work completed, and costs.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand or communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of the position. Communication may include such forms as American Sign Language or braille.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.