Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate CNC equipment.
<ul><li>Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.</li><li>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.</li><li>Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.</li><li>Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.</li><li>Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.</li><li>Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.</li><li>Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.</li><li>Determine product specifications and materials, work methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or work orders.</li><li>Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.</li><li>Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.</li><li>Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.</li><li>Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.</li><li>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.</li><li>Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, or shaping tools.</li><li>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.</li><li>Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, or fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely.</li><li>Clean or maintain products, machines, or work areas.</li><li>Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.</li><li>Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders.</li><li>Grease or oil woodworking machines.</li></ul>