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

  • Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

  • Chucking and Sawing Machine Operator
  • Rip and Groove Machine Operator
  • Stave and Bolt Equalizer

  • Adjust bolts, clamps, stops, guides, or table angles or heights, using hand tools.
  • Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
  • Clear machine jams, using hand tools.
  • Examine blueprints, drawings, work orders, or patterns to determine equipment set-up or selection details, procedures to be used, or dimensions of final products.
  • Inspect and measure workpieces to mark for cuts and to verify the accuracy of cuts, using rulers, squares, or caliper rules.
  • Lubricate or clean machines, using wrenches, grease guns, or solvents.
  • Position and clamp stock on tables, conveyors, or carriages, using hoists, guides, stops, dogs, wedges, or wrenches.
  • Select saw blades, types or grades of stock, or cutting procedures to be used, according to work orders or supervisors' instructions.
  • Sharpen blades, or replace defective or worn blades or bands, using hand tools.
  • Trim lumber to straighten rough edges or remove defects, using circular saws.
  • Unload and roll logs from trucks to sawmill decks or to carriages, or move logs in ponds, using pike poles.

  • Lift materials or workpieces using cranes or other lifting equipment.