// 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

  1. 1Clamps
  2. 2General Hand Tool Operation
  3. 3Hammers
  4. 4Hand Saw
  5. 5Screwdrivers
  6. 6Wood Chisels

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

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

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