Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (75%).

• Count, sort, or stack finished workpieces.
• Monitor sawing machines, adjusting speed and tension and clearing jams to ensure proper operation.
• Clear machine jams, using hand tools.
• Lubricate or clean machines, using wrenches, grease guns, or solvents.
• Examine blueprints, drawings, work orders, or patterns to determine equipment set-up or selection details, procedures to be used, or dimensions of final products.
• Mount and bolt sawing blades or attachments to machine shafts.
• Position and clamp stock on tables, conveyors, or carriages, using hoists, guides, stops, dogs, wedges, or wrenches.
• Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
• Examine logs or lumber to plan the best cuts.
• Adjust bolts, clamps, stops, guides, or table angles or heights, using hand tools.
• Sharpen blades, or replace defective or worn blades or bands, using hand tools.
• Set up, operate, or tend saws or machines that cut or trim wood to specified dimensions, such as circular saws, band saws, multiple-blade sawing machines, scroll saws, ripsaws, or crozer machines.
• Guide workpieces against saws, saw over workpieces by hand, or operate automatic feeding devices to guide cuts.
• Trim lumber to straighten rough edges or remove defects, using circular saws.
• Measure and mark stock for cuts.

• Operate panelboards of saw or conveyor systems to move stock through processes or to cut stock to specified dimensions.
• Inspect stock for imperfections or to estimate grades or qualities of stock or workpieces.
• Inspect and measure workpieces to mark for cuts and to verify the accuracy of cuts, using rulers, squares, or caliper rules.
• Select saw blades, types or grades of stock, or cutting procedures to be used, according to work orders or supervisors' instructions.
• Cut grooves, bevels, or miters, saw curved or irregular designs, and sever or shape metals, according to specifications or work orders.