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

  • Stock Checker

  • Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.
  • 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.
  • Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times.

  • Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.