A professional who tends milling machines that mill surfaces of metal workpieces according to specifications. Respnsibilities include:

• Positions and secures workpiece in fixture or feeding device.
• Starts machine, and turns handwheel to feed workpiece to cutter or vice versa, or engages automatic feeding mechanism.
• Turns valve handle to direct flow of coolant against cutter and workpiece.
• Observes machine operation, and removes and inspects machined workpiece to verify conformance to specifications, using instruments, such as gauges, calipers, micrometers, and templates.
• May change worn cutters, using wrenches.
• Records production output.
• May tend machine that mills workpiece according to programmed cycle.
• May turn controls to adjust feed rate of workpiece or speed of cutting tool.
• May mill nonmetallic materials.