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

  • Bottom Hoop Driver
  • Bottom Turning Lathe Tender
  • Bottom Turning Lathe Turner
  • Smoking Pipe Driller and Threader
  • Wood Drill Operator
  • Wood Drilling 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.

  • 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.
  • Control hoists to remove parts or products from work stations.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
  • Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
  • Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders.
  • Unclamp workpieces and remove them from machines.

  • Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.