RATE A
1. *Marking out
*‘Marking out’ means the marking out with measuring instruments of the centres and working lines of articles and/or material.
2. *Setting out
*‘Setting out’ means the setting out of work on the floor or on the bench to sketches and/or drawings and/or dimensions.
3. Machine tool setting up and/or tool setting, including tool grinding.
RATE AA
| 1. | *Machinist’s work (n.e.s.), viz, shaping, slotting, planing, milling (excluding universal milling), grinding (excluding universal grinding) and the operation of gear cutting and rotary machine tools, excluding centre lathe (with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), boring mills (vertical, horizontal and turret type – with or without copying and/or profiling attachments), die-sinking machines and universal machining. |
*Employees employed on machinist’s work shall be permitted to set up their own work, grind and set their own tools and work to and with precision measuring instruments including rules, calipers and the like.
2. Operating cranking and/or straightening machine (repetition work) (n.e.s.).
RATE B
| 1. | Drilling machine work (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Riveting pressure vessels. |
| 3. | Supervisory work (n.e.s.). |
RATE C
| 1. | Flattening and/or straightening only (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Operating multi-head oxyacetylene cutting machine and/or profiling and/or flame planing and/or flame bevel cutting machine (including setting up) (n.e.s.). |
| 3. | Repetition assembly of pre-prepared interior and exterior fittings and/or components and/or subassemblies, including adjustments under supervision. |
| 4. | Roller bending other than repetition roller bending (n.e.s.). |
| 5. | Setting (n.e.s.) (excluding machine tool setting up and/or toolsetting) of dies and/or fixtures and/or stops and/or jigs and/or guides and/or trips on production machines. |
RATE D
| 1. | Arc and/or gas cutting (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Assembly work, where the components and/or sub-assemblies are positively located, including adjustments, but excluding marking off of components and/or sub-assemblies to drawings and/or the use of precision measuring instruments. |
| 3. | Bending and/or forming to jigs and/or stops in press-brake and/or folding machine (n.e.s.). |
| 4. | Bending of pipes and/or tubes to data sheets or templets. |
| 5. | Drilling and/or countersinking and/or reaming (n.e.s.), including the use of adjustable reamers, providing they are pre-set by a Rate A or AA employee, including the sharpening of drills. |
| 6. | Drilling on radial drilling machines to jigs and/or fixtures and/or marks (n.e.s.). |
| 7. | Hand welding by mechanically fed electrodes. |
| 8. | Machining on repetition work by means of fixtures and/or jigs and/or stops where the work cycle is manually operated (excluding the requirements of stops for parting off and excluding setting but including the use of fixed gauges). |
| 9. | *Marking off material (n.e.s.). |
*‘Marking off’ means marking off material to given lengths for cutting-off purposes, using only length gauges and/or rule and/or tape measure and marking material.
| 10. | Operating automatic arc and/or gas and/or foil welding machine (excluding setting up). |
| 11. | Operating cold circular saw to marks and/or stops. |
| 12. | Operating power saw, including marking off with rule and/or tape only and including the setting of stops (n.e.s.). |
| 13. | Operating single-head gas profile cutting machine and/or single and/or multi-head straight line cutting machine including setting up. |
| 14. | Preliminary shrinking and/or straightening of panels by hand tools of material not exceeding 4 mm. |
| 15. | Press operating (n.e.s.), including the affixing and/or removal of dies where there is positive location, excluding setting up (excluding press brake). |
| 16. | Repetition cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing and/or punching to jigs and/or stops and/or templets and/or marks (n.e.s.) (guillotines and cropping machines). |
| 17. | Repetition operation of or attending a semi-automatic pull broaching machine where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating and/or fixed stops, excluding setting up. |
For the purposes of the above, a ‘semi-automatic pull broaching machine’ is one on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the holding device, passing the broach-tool through the work piece, attaching the broach to the ram, setting the machine in motion for the power cycle to take over and unloading the machine.
18. Repetition operation of templet copying punch machine.
19. Repetition roller forming of plate with pre-set rolls (n.e.s.).
20. *Repetition welding and/or brazing in fixtures.
*Repetition welding and/or brazing in fixtures means that the fixture must be made in such a manner as to allow the employee to undertake the maximum amount of welding and/or brazing on the article in the fixture and thereafter the same employee or a Rate B employee or an employee at a higher rate than Rate B may complete the weld on the article when it is removed from the fixture.
21. Riveting and/or caulking (n.e.s.).
RATE DD
| 1. | Operating mechanical bevelling machine excluding setting of cutters. |
| 2. | Repetition operation of or attending semi-automatic machines (n.e.s.) where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops (excluding setting up), including checking by use of fixed gauges and including the replacing and/or repositioning of throwaway tips only on throwaway tipped tooling, but excluding machine tool setting up and/or toolsetting and/or adjusting. |
For the purposes of the above, ‘semi-automatic machine’ is a machine on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, setting the machine in motion, advancing or retracting the tools (excluding any machining during the advancement and/or retraction of the tools) before and after the power cycle takes over and stopping and unloading the machine.
RATE F
| 1. | Drilling and/or countersinking to jigs and/or fixtures and/or templets and/or stops and/or dimples and/or for the completion of the drilling of holes pre-drilled as above and/or reaming, using non-adjustable reamers, excluding radial drilling machine-size of drilled holes not to exceed 40 mm nominal diameter (n.e.s.). |
| 2. | Repetition operation of or attending semi-automatic machine where the work cycle is power driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops and the mass of the article loaded does not exceed a mass limitation of 12kg (excluding setting up), but including random checking by the use of fixed gauges. |
For the purposes of the above, ‘semi-automatic machine’ is a machine on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, setting the machine in motion, advancing or retracting the tools (excluding any machining during the advancement and/or retraction of the tools) before and after the power cycle takes over and stopping and unloading the machine.
| 3. | Repetition operating of a facing and centreing machine where the manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, starting, stopping and unloading the machine (excluding setting up). |
| 4. | Supervising employees employed on classes of work scheduled below Rate F (when so appointed). |
RATE G
| 1. | Application of anti-corrosive and/or anti-fouling and/or protective coatings. |
| 2. | Application of sound deadening materials. |
| 3. | Assisting Rate D employee in the loading of pre-manufactured components and/or subassemblies into jigs and/or underframes and/or shells and bolting up, excluding fitting and/or adjustment, but including deburring. |
| 4. | Attending fully-automatic machine, including random checking with fixed gauges. |
For the purposes of the above, ‘fully-automatic machine’ is a bar fed machine or a machine fitted with an automatic chucking device (i.e. magazine and/or table and/or mechanical arm fed) and the manual operations are limited to setting the machine in motion, feeding a new bar into the machine or loading the magazine, as the case may be, and stopping the machine.
| 5. | Cold hand bending and/or forming to jigs and/or dies and/or stops. |
| 6. | Cutting lino to templates. |
| 7. | Dressing and/or deburring by hand and/or by grinding and/or by portable power tools. |
| 8. | Fly and/or treadle and/or manual pressing and/or notching and/or power pressing where the work is operated upon with pre-set dies (other than press-brake) (excluding the setting of the dies). |
| 10. | Metal buffing and/or polishing. |
| 11. | Metal cleaning by degreasing and/or pickling. |
| 12. | Operating drop hammer (drop hammer driving). |
| 13. | Operating hand portable and/or pedestal grinding machine where the operator is not required to grind to marks and/or gauges and/or sizes and/or templets. |
| 14. | Operating arc spot and/or butt and/or flash and/or projection and/or resistance and/or seam and/or spot welding machine. |
| 15. | Operating power hammer (hammer driving) under instruction of a Rate A to D employee. |
| 16. | Operating power saw for repetitive cutting off to stops and/or length gauges and/or fixed graduated scales (other than the setting of stops and other than in tool room) (excluding cold sawing). |
| 17. | Operating tumbling barrel. |
| 18. | Reaming, using non-adjustable reamers. |
| 19. | Repetition cutting and/or cropping of bars and/or billets to stops and/or length gauges and/or repetition cutting and/or cropping of scrap. |
| 20. | Repetition drilling and/or countersinking to fixtures and/or gauges and/or jigs and/or stops and/or templets, excluding radial drilling machine. |
| 21. | Repetition drop forging and/or stamping, using pre-set dies (excluding setting up and/or swaging). |
| 22. | Repetition forging under power hammer, using pre-set dies, excluding hand manipulation. |
| 23. | Repetition frazing and/or pointing machine work. |
| 24. | Repetition blanking and/or piercing by press, using guides and/or jigs and/or stops and/or dies (excluding press-brake). |
| 25. | Repetition machine swaging, using dies, excluding power hammer. |
| 26. | Repetition operating nibbling machine and/or nibbling shears to jigs and/or templets of material not exceeding 4 mm in thickness. |
| 27. | Repetition operation of and/or attending special-purpose machine, including the use of fixed gauges, where the manual operations are limited to loading, setting the machine in motion, stopping and unloading the machine, but excluding setting up. |
| 28. | Repetition roller bending and/or forming of material not exceeding 4 mm in thickness. |
| 29. | Repetition threading and/or tapping by machine. |
| 30. | Re-threading and/or re-tapping. |
| 31. | Rough straightening and/or rough flattening of material, excluding the use of rules and straight edges and excluding structural metal-work. |
| 32. | Sand and/or shot and/or hydro and/or grit blasting. |
| 33. | Screwing machine operating, excluding setting up. |
| 34. | Spraying of enamel and/or paint. |
| 35. | Straightening and/or flattening of gussets and/or cleats. |
| 36. | Striking by hand hammer under instruction of Rate A to D employee. |
| 37. | Stripping and/or punching forgings and/or stampings using pre-set dies. |
RATE H
| 1. | Affixing slings under supervision of a Rate A to D employee. |
| 2. | Baling and/or cutting of scrap other than in workshop. |
| 3. | Dipping in enamel and/or lacquer and/or paint. |
| 4. | Holding up and/or backing up for riveting. |
| 5. | Lagging of pipes and/or securing of lagging by clips. |
| 6. | Repetition deburring and/or fettling by hand and/or machine. |
| 8. | Stamping and/or affixing metal labels and/or nameplates. |
| 9. | Furnace loading and/or unloading and/or stoking and/or quenching. |
| 11. | Oiling and/or greasing. |
