Mickel Fargher
Walnut
Summary
Experienced Manual Lathe Operator known for strong collaboration and efficiency improvement skills. Focused on enhancing production yield and ensuring safety compliance, while effectively training new team members to uphold quality and operational standards.
Overview
39
39
years of professional experience
Work History
Manual Lathe Operator
Metal Spinners
Rock Falls
09.1987 - 07.2026
- Perform routine maintenance on lathe machines including lubricating parts and checking fluid levels.
- Set up and adjust lathes, fixtures, cutting tools, and work pieces to ensure conformance to specifications.
- Sharpen cutting tools when necessary using grinding wheels or other abrasive materials.
- Measure finished work pieces with precision measuring instruments to ensure conformance with specifications.
- Inspect products for defects in quality or accuracy of production.
- Read blueprints or job orders for product specifications such as dimensions and tolerances and tooling instructions such as feed rates and cutting speeds.
- Load raw materials onto machines for processing.
- Maintained tools and machinery, ensuring cleanliness and functionality.
- Maintain a clean working environment by disposing of shavings, chips and other debris properly.
- Collaborated with team members to identify and implement strategies that enhanced production efficiency.
- Improved overall production yield by streamlining progress and minimizing deficiencies.
- Trained new operators on machine operation and safety procedures.
- Trained new employees on how to safely operate the lathe machine.
- Follow safety protocols to minimize risks in the workplace.
- Follow safety procedures when operating the lathe machine.
- Ensure compliance with company policies regarding safety regulations at all times.
- De-burred and cleaned parts after jobs and performed inspections to locate concerns.
- Record information such as the type of material used, production times, scrap rate, into logbooks.
- Work closely with supervisors and managers to ensure that all deadlines are met.
- Helped engineers and supervisors improve parts, methods and fixturing by offering feedback from machine runs.
Education
High School Diploma -
Rock Falls High School
Rock Falls, IL06-1982
Skills
- Lathe operation
- Lathe setup
- Blueprint reading
- Machine maintenance
- Quality inspection
- Production optimization
- Safety procedures
- Employee training
- Problem solving
Timeline
Manual Lathe Operator
Metal Spinners
09.1987 - 07.2026
High School Diploma -
Rock Falls High School