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

  • Computer Numerical Control Operator
  • Computer Numerical Control Wood Lathe Operator
  • Computer Numerically Controlled Wood Lathe Operator
  • Set Up Mechanic
  • Set-Up Mechanic

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
  • Set up, program, or control computer-aided design (CAD) or computer numerical control (CNC) machines.