Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

What Does a Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing Do?

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.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
• 2Examine 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.
• 3Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.
• 4Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.
• 5Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
• 6Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
• 7Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
• 8Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.

Required Skills

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Creative Cloud software
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Apple macOS
• AS/400 Database
• Autodesk AutoCAD
• Computer aided design and drafting CADD software
• Computerized numerical control CNC software

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