A professional who installs machinery and equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, and other drawings in industrial establishment, using hoists, lift trucks, handtools, and power tools. Responsibilities include:

• Reads blueprints and schematic drawings to determine work procedures.
• Dismantles machines, using hammers, wrenches, crowbars, and other handtools.
• Moves machinery and equipment, using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.
• Assembles and installs equipment, such as shafting, conveyors, and tram rails, using handtools and power tools.
• Constructs foundation for machines, using handtools and building materials, such as wood, cement, and steel.
• Aligns machines and equipment, using hoists, jacks, handtools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.
• Assembles machines, and bolts, welds, rivets, or otherwise fastens them to foundation or other structures, using handtools and power tools.
• May operate engine lathe to grind, file, and turn machine parts to dimensional specifications.
• May repair and lubricate machines and equipment.
• May install robot and modify its program, using teach pendant. May perform installation and maintenance work as part of team of skilled trades workers.