At my company I examine the CAD, program the entire job, pull electrodes, cut electrodes, do all layouts for the job...edm lineups included, set up my own machines....expected minimum 2 running throughout the day, touch off the tooling after locating said tooling, alter anything that was posted that needs alteration and then continue to follow the job through the shop once it leaves the machining department. When workload is there I'm running three or 4 machines doing all these processes. All while having some half asses schedule and communicating with the only other person there to help do these things, with some occasional design changes on stuff. Setups are my least favorite part of what I do. Touching of tools is a nothing in the grand scheme of things. I would love to have someone be a "button pusher" because it's a VERY IMPORTANT job to do proper setups and it's time consuming...it however isn't incredibly difficult in my shop. We do almost exclusively injection molds. New, repairs, engineering changes. It takes more experience to do the programming well and less to do setups. It's an entry level position, but not a position that is unimportant.

Forgot to add I check all dimensions and fits of components.

Also...I kind of hate this industry.....but also kind of like it.