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

  • Set Up Mechanic
  • Set-Up Mechanic

  • Inspect and mark completed workpieces and stack them on pallets, in boxes, or on conveyors so that they can be moved to the next workstation.
  • Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, or fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely.
  • Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
  • Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.
  • Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.

  • Inspect lumber or raw woodstock.
  • Inspect production equipment.