Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
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.
- Tasks
- 25 tasks20 core, 5 supplemental
- Family
- ProductionOne of its 114 occupations
- Code
- 51-7042.00SOC 2018: 51-7042
What the work is made of
20 core tasks and 5 supplemental, each quoted as published, with the survey it came from.
Core: central to the jobSupplemental: done by some, not all
- Task 1. Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.Core taskTask 12279Rated by 88 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 2. 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.Core taskTask 12281Rated by 89 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 3. Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.Core taskTask 12274Rated by 91 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 4. Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.Core taskTask 12278Rated by 90 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 5. Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.Core taskTask 12291Rated by 87 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 6. Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.Core taskTask 12277Rated by 88 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 7. Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.Core taskTask 12282Rated by 90 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 8. Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.Core taskTask 12285Rated by 88 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 9. Determine product specifications and materials, work methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or work orders.Core taskTask 12275Rated by 88 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 10. Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.Core taskTask 12276Rated by 90 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 11. Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.Core taskTask 12284Rated by 86 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 12. Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.Core taskTask 12280Rated by 88 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 13. Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, or shaping tools.Core taskTask 12287Rated by 90 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 14. Secure woodstock against a guide or in a holding device, place woodstock on a conveyor, or dump woodstock in a hopper to feed woodstock into machines.Core taskTask 12288Rated by 91 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 15. 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.Core taskTask 12283Rated by 88 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 16. Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, or fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely.Core taskTask 12286Rated by 91 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 17. Clean or maintain products, machines, or work areas.Core taskTask 12289Rated by 89 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 18. Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.Core taskTask 12290Rated by 87 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 19. Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders.Core taskTask 12295Rated by 90 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 20. Grease or oil woodworking machines.Core taskTask 20823Rated by 89 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 21. Unclamp workpieces and remove them from machines.Supplemental taskTask 12296Rated by 90 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 22. Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times.Supplemental taskTask 12297Rated by 91 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 23. Operate gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces.Supplemental taskTask 12293Rated by 89 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 24. Set up, program, or control computer-aided design (CAD) or computer numerical control (CNC) machines.Supplemental taskTask 12292Rated by 90 people who do the job, July 2015
- Task 25. Control hoists to remove parts or products from work stations.Supplemental taskTask 12298Rated by 90 people who do the job, July 2015
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- ClassificationStandard Occupational Classification 2018, 51-7042
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