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72405 – Machine fitters
Machine fitters fit, assemble and otherwise build heavy industrial machinery and transportation equipment, including aircraft engines. They are employed in industrial machinery and transportation equipment manufacturing industries.
Profile
Index of titles Example job titles
- Agricultural machinery builder
- Agricultural machinery fitter
- Aircraft engine assembly fitter
- Aircraft engine fitter
- Assembly fitter
- Assembly mechanic-fitter lead hand
- Chemical-processing machine builder
- Compressor fitter
- Crane fitter
- Farm machinery builder
- Farm machinery fitter
- Food-processing machine fitter
- Grader fitter
- Heavy equipment fitter
- Heavy machinery fitter
- Locomotive builder
- Locomotive fitter
- Logging machinery fitter
- Machine builder
- Machine builder-fitter
- Machine fitter
- Machine fitter charge hand
- Machine tool builder
- Machine tool builder-integrator
- Machine tool integrator
- Machinery manufacturing fitter
- Manufacturing machinery fitter
- Mechanical fitter
- Mining machinery fitter
- Production equipment fitter
- Pulp and paper machinery builder
- Railway coach fitter
- Ship engine fitter
- Ship machinery fitter
- Textile machinery fitter
- Turbine fitter
- Aircraft engine fitter
- Assembly fitter
- Heavy equipment fitter
- Machine builder
- Machine fitter
- Machine tool builder
- Mechanical fitter
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
- Read and interpret blueprints, sketches and diagrams to determine assembly operations
- Fit and assemble prefabricated metal parts to build heavy industrial machinery and equipment such as construction, farming, and processing machinery, railway vehicles and aircraft engines
- Move and align subassemblies and components using lifting and transporting devices such as overhead cranes
- Install major components such as gears, pumps, motors or hydraulic assemblies
- Inspect parts, subassemblies and finished products to ensure quality.
Employment requirements
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Completion of a mechanical apprenticeship program, such as millwrighting, machining, pipefitting, automotive service or heavy equipment repair or completion of a four-year machine fitter apprenticeship program or completion of five years of on-the-job training is usually required.
- Completion of a two- to three-year college program in aircraft manufacturing or general fabrication is required for aircraft engine fitters.
- Certification in a related trade may be required.
Additional information
- Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
Exclusions
- Assemblers, fabricators and inspectors, industrial electrical motors and transformers (94203)
- Aircraft assembler (in 93200 Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors)
- Mechanical assemblers and inspectors (94204)
- Welders and related machine operators (72106)
- Millwright (in 72400 Construction millwrights and industrial mechanics)
- Machine fitters supervisor (in 72020 Contractors and supervisors, mechanic trades)
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 7 – Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations
- TEER
- 2 – Occupations usually require a college diploma or apprenticeship training of two or more years; or supervisory occupations
- Major group
- 72 – Technical trades and transportation officers and controllers
- Sub-major group
- 724 – Technical maintenance trades
- Minor group
- 7240 – Machinery and transportation equipment mechanics (except motor vehicles)
- Version
- NOC 2021 Version 1.0