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Career Guidance Knowledge engineering, manufacturing and construction K071 - engineering and engineering trades K0715 - mechanics and metal trades Types of drill bits
Description
Qualities and applications of various types of drill bits, such as core drill bits, spotting drill bits, countersink drill bits and others.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 4 occupations
- Optional in 2 occupations
- Total: 6 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Boring machine operatorBoring machine operators prepare, operate, and maintain single or multiple spindle machines using a boring bar with a hardened, rotary, multipointed cutting tool in order to enlarg…
- Stone drillerStone drillers operate the drilling machine that bores holes into stone blocks. They manipulate granit, sandstone, marble and slate according to specifications. Duties A stone dril…
- Wood boring machine operatorWood boring machine operators use milling machines or specialise boring jigs to cut holes in wood workpieces. Wood boring differs from routing mainly in that the main movement is…
- Drill press operatorDrill press operators set up and operate drill presses designed to cut excess material from or enlarge a hole in a fabricated workpiece using a hardened, rotary, multipointed cutti…
Optional for
- Metalworking lathe operatorMetalworking lathe operators set up and tend a metalworking lathe manually, which is responsible for cutting metal to its desired size and shape by usage of a gear train…
- Wood router operatorWood router operators work with industrial routers to cut wood into the desired shape. Routers have a routing head that moves over the wood, going up and down to…
Related skills
- Supply machine with appropriate tools
- Consult technical resources
- Supply machine
- Remove processed workpiece
- Perform test run
- Keep records of work progress
- Inspect quality of products
- Dispose of cutting waste material
- Monitor automated machines
- Remove inadequate workpieces
- Troubleshoot
- Set up the controller of a machine
Last updated on February 19, 2026
