Woodworking Machine Operators and Tenders, Except Sawing

Operate or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood-nailing machines to perform woodworking operations.

Job Task

• Starts machine, adjusts controls, and moves lever or depresses pedal to bore, shape, smooth, shave, chip, slice or cut woodstock.
• Re-adjusts and re-aligns guides of sanding, cutting, or boring machines to correct defects in finished product, using hand tools.
• Installs and adjusts blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts in machines, according to workpiece, machine function, and specifications, using hand tools.
• Starts machine and moves lever to engage hydraulic lift to press woodstock into desired form, allows for drying-time, and removes.
• Selects knives, blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, according to workpiece, machine function, and specifications.
• Examines blueprints, drawings, or samples to determine size, type, and setting of machine tools, stops, jigs, and guides to use.
• Examines finished workpiece for smoothness, shape, angle, depth-of-cut and conformity to specifications, visually and using hands, rule, or other gauges.
• Examines rollers, sanding-belts, knives, cutting or boring devices, and conveyor mechanisms and sharpens or replaces worn parts, using hand tools.
• Hand-stacks on pallet or conveyor or controls hoist to remove part or product from work-station.
• Marks or otherwise identifies completed and inspected workpiece.
• Cleans machines, work-station, or conveyor, using airhose, wax, solvents, brushes and rags.
• Examines raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
• Places water-soaked woodstock into form under hydraulic lift to shape for use in making such items as musical instruments.
• Places or secures woodstock against guide or into holding-device prior to feeding into machine.

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