WOODWORKING MACHINE OPERATORS AND TENDERS, EXCEPT SAWING

Job Definition:

Job Description:

• Operate or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood-nailing machines to perform woodworking operations.

Duties and Tasks:

• 1) Starts machine, adjusts controls, and moves lever or depresses pedal to bore, shape, smooth, shave, chip, slice or cut woodstock.
• 2) Re-adjusts and re-aligns guides of sanding, cutting, or boring machines to correct defects in finished product, using hand tools.
• 3) Installs and adjusts blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts in machines, according to workpiece, machine function, and specifications, using hand tools.
• 4) Starts machine and moves lever to engage hydraulic lift to press woodstock into desired form, allows for drying-time, and removes.
• 5) Selects knives, blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, according to workpiece, machine function, and specifications.

   

• 6) Examines blueprints, drawings, or samples to determine size, type, and setting of machine tools, stops, jigs, and guides to use.
• 7) Examines finished workpiece for smoothness, shape, angle, depth-of-cut and conformity to specifications, visually and using hands, rule, or other gauges.
• 8) Examines rollers, sanding-belts, knives, cutting or boring devices, and conveyor mechanisms and sharpens or replaces worn parts, using hand tools.
• 9) Hand-stacks on pallet or conveyor or controls hoist to remove part or product from work-station.
• 10) Marks or otherwise identifies completed and inspected workpiece.
• 11) Cleans machines, work-station, or conveyor, using airhose, wax, solvents, brushes and rags.
• 12) Examines raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
• 13) Places water-soaked woodstock into form under hydraulic lift to shape for use in making such items as musical instruments.
• 14) Places or secures woodstock against guide or into holding-device prior to feeding into machine.

Activities:

• 1) Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
• 2) Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• 3) Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
• 4) Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• 5) Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• 6) Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• 7) Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• 8) Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• 9) Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.

Abilities:

• 1) Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• 2) Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
• 3) Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• 4) Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• 5) Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• 6) Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• 7) Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
• 8) Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• 9) Multilimb Coordination — The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
• 10) Static Strength — The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
• 11) Extent Flexibility — The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.

Knowledge:

• Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Building and Construction — Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.