Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
SOC Code: 51-4194
Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpenerss monitor machine operations to determine whether adjustments are necessary, stopping machines when problems occur. This career typically requires moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year). With an AI-proof score of 89.2/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Operations Monitoring, Operation and Control, Operations Monitoring.
AI-Proof Score: 89.2 — Very High
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Median Salary
$48,970
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Job Growth
-7.8%
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Training Time
Moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year)
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Job Zone
Zone 2 / 5
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Training Cost
~$5,000
Key Skills
- •Operations Monitoring
- •Operation and Control
- •Quality Control Analysis
- •Equipment Maintenance
- •Repairing
- •Critical Thinking
Common Tasks
- ✓Monitor machine operations to determine whether adjustments are necessary, stopping machines when problems occur.
- ✓Inspect, feel, and measure workpieces to ensure that surfaces and dimensions meet specifications.
- ✓Study blueprints or layouts of metal workpieces to determine grinding procedures, and to plan machine setups and operational sequences.
- ✓Select and mount grinding wheels on machines, according to specifications, using hand tools and applying knowledge of abrasives and grinding procedures.
- ✓Compute numbers, widths, and angles of cutting tools, micrometers, scales, and gauges, and adjust tools to produce specified cuts.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation