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

  • Nail Kegger
  • Nail Setter
  • Nail Sticker
  • Nailer
  • Nailer Operator
  • Nailhead Operator
  • Nailhead Setter
  • Nailing Machine Operator
  • Automatic Nailing Machine Operator
  • Band Nailer
  • Doors Prefitter
  • Heel Nailing Machine Operator
  • Lumber Press Operator
  • Veneer Press Operator
  • Wood Handler
  • Wood Milling Machine Hand
  • Wood Router Hand

  • Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment.

  • Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
  • Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.
  • 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.
  • Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
  • Operate gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces.
  • Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
  • Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times.