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

  • Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

  • Wood Borer
  • Wood Boring Machine Operator
  • Wood Carving Lathe Operator
  • Wood Carving Machine Operator
  • Wood Chopper
  • Wood Coat Hanger Shaper Machine Operator
  • Wood Dowel Machine Operator
  • Wood Drill Operator
  • Wood Drilling Machine Operator
  • Wood Gouger
  • Wood Handler
  • Wood Heel Back Liner
  • Wood Lathe Operator
  • Wood Machine Carver
  • Wood Miller
  • Wood Milling Machine Hand
  • Wood Milling Machine Operator
  • Wood Milling Machine Tender
  • Wood Molder
  • Wood Planer
  • Wood Router
  • Wood Router Hand
  • Wood Turner
  • Wood Turning Lathe Operator
  • Woodworking Belt Sander
  • Woodworking Machine Setter
  • Briar Cutter
  • CNC Wood Lathe Operator
  • Computer Numerical Control Wood Lathe Operator
  • Computer Numerically Controlled Wood Lathe Operator
  • Flake Cutter Operator
  • Machine Wood Sander
  • Machine Woodworking Sander
  • Molding Cutter
  • Rafter Cutting Machine Operator

  • 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.

  • Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
  • 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.
  • Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
  • Grease or oil woodworking machines.
  • 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.
  • Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.
  • Secure woodstock against a guide or in a holding device, place woodstock on a conveyor, or dump woodstock in a hopper to feed woodstock into machines.
  • Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.
  • Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
  • Sharpen knives, bits, or other cutting or shaping tools.
  • Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times.
  • Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.
  • Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders.

  • Inspect lumber or raw woodstock.
  • Operate woodworking equipment.
  • Set equipment controls to meet cutting specifications.
  • Sharpen cutting or grinding tools.