Millwrights

Duties

Millwrights install, maintain, repair and troubleshoot stationary industrial machinery and mechanical equipment in sites such as factories, production plants and recreational facilities. On a typical job, millwrights:

• read diagrams and schematic drawings and service manuals to determine work procedures
• operate rigging equipment and dollies to place heavy machinery and parts
• fit bearings, align gears and shafts, attach motors, and connect couplings and belts to precise tolerances
• align and test equipment, and make any necessary adjustments
• perform predictive and operational maintenance using procedures such as vibration analysis, and repair or replace defective parts when necessary
• service and repair hydraulic, pneumatic and programmable logic controls
• may do some tack welding and fabrication as well as maintain an inventory of replacement parts
• may do some tack welding (a weld tha...