setting-up, programming, operating and monitoring several types of woodworking machines for sawing, shaping, boring, drilling, planing, pressing, turning, sanding or carving to fabricate or repair wooden parts for furniture, fixtures and other wooden products
// Unit group · 7523
Woodworking Machine Tool Setters and Operators
Woodworking machine tool setters and operators set-up, operate and monitor automatic or semi-automatic woodworking machines, such as precision sawing, shaping, planing, boring, turning and woodcarving machines to fabricate or repair wooden parts for furniture, fixtures and other wooden products.
7 Craft and Related Trades Workers / 75 Food Processing, Woodworking, Garment and Other Craft and Related Trades Workers / 752 Wood Treaters, Cabinet-makers and Related Trades Workers / All level 4
// Working conditions
// Hand tools
operating preset special-purpose woodworking machines to fabricate wooden products such as coat hangers, mop handles, clothes pins and other products
selecting knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits or belts according to work piece, machine functions and product specifications
installing and adjusting blades, cutter heads, boring-bits and sanding-belts, and using hand tools and rules
setting and adjusting various kinds of woodworking machines for operation by others
reading and interpreting specifications or following verbal instructions.
Included occupations
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Carving machine operator (wood)
- Furniture production machine operator
- Precision woodworking sawyer
- Wood products machine operator
- Wood turner
- Woodworking lathe operator
- Woodworking machine setter
- Woodworking machine setter-operator
- Woodworking machine set-up operator
Excluded occupations
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Wood and related products assemblers - 8219
Indexed job titles 41
- Borer, woodISCO-88 7423
- Machinist, wood productsISCO-88 8240
- Operator, lathe: woodworkingISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: bending (wood)ISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: carving (wood)ISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: drilling (wood)ISCO-88 8141
- Operator, machine: engraving (wood)ISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: etching (wood)ISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: finishing (wood)ISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: furniture productionISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: marking (wood)ISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: planing (wood)ISCO-88 8141
- Operator, machine: polishing (wood)ISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: sports equipment (wood)ISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: toy production (wood)ISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: wood productsISCO-88 8240
- Operator, machine: woodworkingISCO-88 8240
- Operator, set-up: woodworking machineISCO-88 7423
- Sawyer, precision woodworkingISCO-88 7423
- Sawyer, woodISCO-88 7423
- Setter, woodworking machineISCO-88 7423
- Setter-operator, carving machine: woodworkingISCO-88 7423
- Setter-operator, fret-saw: woodworkingISCO-88 7423
- Setter-operator, jigsaw: woodworkingISCO-88 7423
- Setter-operator, lathe: woodworkingISCO-88 7423
- Setter-operator, planing machine: woodworkingISCO-88 7423
- Setter-operator, routing machine: woodworkingISCO-88 7423
- Setter-operator, shaping machine: woodworkingISCO-88 7423
- Setter-operator, woodworking machineISCO-88 7423
- Tuner, woodISCO-88 7423
- Turner, woodISCO-88 7423
- Woodworker, dovetailingISCO-88 7423
- Woodworker, dowellingISCO-88 7423
- Woodworker, morticingISCO-88 7423
- Woodworker, sandingISCO-88 7423
- Woodworker, tenoningISCO-88 7423
- Worker, wood: dovetailingISCO-88 7423
- Worker, wood: dowellingISCO-88 7423
- Worker, wood: morticingISCO-88 7423
- Worker, wood: sandingISCO-88 7423
- Worker, wood: tenoningISCO-88 7423