How do they match: Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
Determine product specifications and materials, work methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or work orders.
Examine finished workpieces for smoothness, shape, angle, depth-of-cut, or conformity to specifications and verify dimensions, visually and using hands, rules, calipers, templates, or gauges.
Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.
Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.
Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.
Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.
Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders.

Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
Select production equipment according to product specifications.
Set equipment controls to meet cutting specifications.

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