Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (85%).

• Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders.
• Grease or oil woodworking machines.
• Clean or maintain products, machines, or work areas.
• Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.
• Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.
• Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
• Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
• Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.
• 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.
• Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
• Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.
• 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, or conformity to specifications and verify dimensions, visually and using hands, rules, calipers, templates, or gauges.
• Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, or shaping tools.
• Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
• Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.
• Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, or fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely.

• Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.
• Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
• 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.