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Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing - 51-7042.00

O*NET-SOC Description

Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines.

Sample of Reported Job Titles

  • Machine Operator
  • Sander Operator
  • Computer Numerical Control Operator (CNC Operator)
  • Machinist
  • Knot Saw Operator
  • Lathe Operator
  • Molder Operator
  • Boring Machine Operator
  • Cabinet Maker
  • Custom Shop Worker

SOC Occupation Groups

51-0000 Production Occupations
51-7000 Woodworkers
51-7040 Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
51-7042.00 Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

Related Occupations

Tasks

  • Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
  • Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, and feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
  • Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides in order to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.
  • Clean and maintain products, machines, and work areas.
  • Control hoists to remove parts or products from work stations.
  • Determine product specifications and materials, work methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or work orders.
  • Examine finished workpieces for smoothness, shape, angle, depth-of-cut, and conformity to specifications, and verify dimensions, visually and using hands, rules, calipers, templates, or gauges.
  • Examine raw woodstock for defects, and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
  • Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.
  • 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.
  • Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, and fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely.
  • Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
  • Monitor operation of machines, and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.
  • Operate gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces.
  • Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring or shaping mechanisms.
  • Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, and shaping tools.
  • 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.
  • Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, and product specifications.
  • Set up, program, and control computer-aided design (CAD) or computer numerical control (CNC) machines.
  • Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood-nailing machines.
  • Sharpen knives, bits, and other cutting and shaping tools.
  • Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms, and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times.
  • Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.
  • Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, and wood files or sanders.
  • Unclamp workpieces and remove them from machines.

Detailed Work Activities

  • adjust production equipment/machinery setup
  • attach or mark identification onto products or containers
  • clean equipment or machinery
  • clean rooms or work areas
  • cut, shape, fit, or join wood or other construction materials
  • examine products or work to verify conformance to specifications
  • inspect machinery or equipment to determine adjustments or repairs needed
  • install equipment or attachments on machinery or related structures
  • load or unload material or workpiece into machinery
  • load, unload, or stack containers, materials, or products
  • maintain consistent production quality
  • maintain or repair industrial or related equipment/machinery
  • monitor production machinery/equipment operation to detect problems
  • move or fit heavy objects
  • operate hoist, winch, or hydraulic boom
  • operate lathes
  • operate woodworking equipment/machinery
  • perform safety inspections in manufacturing or industrial setting
  • read blueprints
  • read production layouts
  • read specifications
  • read technical drawings
  • read work order, instructions, formulas, or processing charts
  • set up computer numerical control machines
  • set up production equipment or machinery
  • understand technical operating, service or repair manuals
  • use hand or power tools
  • use hand or power woodworking tools
  • use precision measuring tools or equipment

Military Crosswalk Titles

No information available.

Apprenticeship Crosswalk Titles

  • Machine Setter (Woodworking)
  • Wood-Turning-Lathe Operator

DOT Crosswalk Titles

  • Adzing-and-Boring-Machine Operator
  • Barker Operator
  • Barrel-Lathe Operator, Inside
  • Barrel-Lathe Operator, Outside
  • Basket Assembler I
  • Bender, Machine
  • Blind-Slat-Stapling-Machine Operator
  • Boring-Machine Operator
  • Bottom-Hoop Driver
  • Bottom-Turning-Lathe Tender
  • Bowl Turner
  • Box-Blank-Machine Operator
  • Briar Cutter
  • Bucket Chucker
  • Bucket Turner
  • Checkering-Machine Adjuster
  • Chipping-Machine Operator
  • Chucking-and-Boring-Machine Operator
  • Chucking-Machine Operator
  • Clipper, Automatic
  • Coat-Hanger-Shaper-Machine Operator
  • Copy-Lathe Tender
  • Cork Grinder
  • Corrugated-Fastener Driver
  • Cylinder-Sander Operator
  • Dado Operator
  • Double-End-Trimmer-and-Boring-Machine Operator
  • Dovetail-Machine Operator
  • Dowel-Inserting-Machine Operator
  • Dowel-Machine Operator
  • End Frazer
  • End Stapler
  • Excelsior-Machine Tender
  • Foot-Miter Operator
  • Frame-Table Operator
  • Framer
  • Frazer
  • Groover-and-Striper Operator
  • Header
  • Heading-Machine Operator
  • Heel-Nailing-Machine Operator
  • Incising-Machine Operator
  • Inletter
  • Jointer Operator
  • Knife Setter
  • Last Scourer
  • Last Trimmer
  • Lathe Sander
  • Lock-Corner-Machine Operator
  • Machine Setter
  • Molder Operator
  • Molding Cutter
  • Molding Sander
  • Mortising-Machine Operator
  • Multi-Purpose Machine Operator
  • Multiple-Drum Sander
  • Nailing-Machine Operator
  • Nailing-Machine Operator, Automatic
  • Pipe-and-Tank Fabricator
  • Planer Operator
  • Plow-and-Boring-Machine Tender
  • Plugging-Machine Operator
  • Plywood-Scarfer Tender
  • Prefitter, Doors
  • Profile-Shaper Operator, Automatic
  • Pulley-Mortiser Operator
  • Punch Press Operator
  • Puncher
  • Rafter-Cutting-Machine Operator
  • Rodding Machine Tender
  • Roof-Truss-Machine Tender
  • Rough Planer Tender
  • Rounding-Machine Tender
  • Router Operator
  • Router Tender
  • Sander
  • Sander, Machine
  • Sander, Portable Machine
  • Sanding-Machine Buffer
  • Sanding-Machine Tender
  • Scooping-Machine Tender
  • Set-Up Mechanic
  • Shake Backboard Notcher
  • Shank Threader
  • Shaper Operator
  • Shuttle Spotter
  • Sizing-Machine Tender
  • Skiving-Machine Operator
  • Slat-Basket Maker, Machine
  • Slicing-Machine Tender
  • Smoking-Pipe Driller and Threader
  • Spar-Machine Operator
  • Speed-Belt-Sander Tender
  • Spindle Carver
  • Splitter Tender
  • Splitting-Machine Tender
  • Squeezer Operator
  • Stave Jointer
  • Stave-Machine Tender
  • Stemhole Borer
  • Stock Checkerer II
  • Stroke-Belt-Sander Operator
  • Swing-Type-Lathe Operator
  • Tenoner Operator
  • Timber-Sizer Operator
  • Tip Inserter
  • Tongue-and-Groove-Machine Operator
  • Touch-Up Carver
  • Trimming Machine Set-Up Operator
  • Turner
  • Turning Lathe Tender
  • Turning Machine Set-Up Operator
  • Turning-Sander Tender
  • Veneer Clipper
  • Veneer Jointer
  • Veneer-Lathe Operator
  • Veneer-Slicing-Machine Operator
  • Wood-Carving-Machine Operator
  • Wood-Heel Back-Liner
  • Wood-Turning-Lathe Operator