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

  • Planer
  • Planer Operator
  • Planer Setup Operator
  • Planer Type Milling Machine Setup Operator
  • Planing Machine Operator
  • Board Finisher
  • Rough Planer Tender
  • Wood Planer

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.
  • 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.

  • Stack finished items for further processing or shipment.