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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate CNC equipment. | Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly. | |||
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Determine product specifications and materials, work methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or work orders. | ||||
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Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components. | ||||
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Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations. | ||||
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Monitor operation of machines, and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications. | ||||
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Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood-nailing machines. | ||||
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Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, and product specifications. | ||||
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Examine finished workpieces for smoothness, shape, angle, depth-of-cut, and conformity to specifications, and verify dimensions, visually and using hands, rules, calipers, templates, or gauges. | ||||
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Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring or shaping mechanisms. | ||||
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Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides in order to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools. | ||||
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Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, and fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely. | ||||
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Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, and shaping tools. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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Clean and maintain products, machines, and work areas. | ||||
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Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, and feed mechanisms, using hand tools. | ||||
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Examine raw woodstock for defects, and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards. | ||||
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Set up, program, and control computer-aided design (CAD) or computer numerical control (CNC) machines. | ||||
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Operate gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces. | ||||
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Sharpen knives, bits, and other cutting and shaping tools. | ||||
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Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, and wood files or sanders. | ||||
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Unclamp workpieces and remove them from machines. | ||||
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Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms, and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times. | ||||
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Control hoists to remove parts or products from work stations. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators and Tenders
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. | |||
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Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Equipment Selection | Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. | |||
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Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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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. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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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. | |||
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Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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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. | |||
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Response Orientation | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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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). | |||
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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. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Speed of Closure | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. | |||
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Wrist-Finger Speed | The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. | |||
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Hearing Sensitivity | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Computerized numerical control CNC software | Industrial control software | |||
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Inventory control software | Inventory management software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Timekeeping software | Time accounting software | |||
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Adjustable hand wrenches | Adjustable wrenches | |||
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Automatic panel saws | Power saws | |||
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Bench grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Biscuit jointers | Biscuit jointers | |||
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Boring bars | Boring tools | |||
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Boring machines | Boring machines | |||
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Case clamps | Positioning jig | |||
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Claw hammers | Hammers | |||
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Combination squares | Squares | |||
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Computer terminals | Mainframe console or dumb terminals | |||
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Computerized numerical control CNC boring machines | Boring machines | |||
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Conveyor feeders | Conveyor feeders | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Dial calipers | Calipers | |||
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Digital calipers | Calipers | |||
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Dividers | Compasses | |||
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Double end tenoners | Cutting machines | |||
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Drill presses | Drilling machines | |||
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Edge sanders | Sanding machines | |||
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Grease guns | Grease guns | |||
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Hand lathes | Lathes | |||
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Handsaws | Saws | |||
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Height gauges | Height gauges | |||
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Holding clamps | Hold down clamps | |||
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Holding jigs | Positioning jig | |||
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Hydraulic hot presses | Hydraulic press frames | |||
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Lathes | Lathes | |||
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Layout templates | Templates | |||
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Line boring machines | Boring machines | |||
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Machining centers | Milling machines | |||
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Nailing machines | Power nail guns | |||
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Paint application brushes | Paint brushes | |||
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Planers | Planing machines | |||
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Planing machines | Planing machines | |||
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Pneumatic sanding machines | Pneumatic sanding machines | |||
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Power routers | Power routers | |||
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Power sanders | Power sanders | |||
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Precision rulers | Rulers | |||
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Profile grinders | Grinding machines | |||
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Protective ear muffs | Ear muffs | |||
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Protractors | Protractors | |||
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Random orbital sanders | Power sanders | |||
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Safety glasses | Safety glasses | |||
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Safety gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Screw pocket machines | Boring machines | |||
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Shapers | Planes | |||
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Shaping machines | Gear shapers | |||
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Spindle shapers | Planes | |||
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Spray guns | Hand sprayers | |||
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Tenoners | Cutting machines | |||
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Turning lathes | Lathes | |||
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Vernier calipers | Calipers | |||
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Wide belt sanders | Sanding machines | |||
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Wood files | Files | |||
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Woodworking chisels | Wood chisels | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Adzing and Boring Machine Operator | |||
Artificial Log Machine Operator | |||
Automatic Clipper | |||
Automatic Lathe Setup and Tooler | |||
Automatic Nailing Machine Operator | |||
Automatic Profile Shaper Operator | |||
Balloon Sander | |||
Band Nailer | |||
Band Saw Operator | |||
Bander | |||
Bander Operator | |||
Barker Operator | |||
Barrel Builder | |||
Barrel Charrer | |||
Barrel Lathe Operator | |||
Barrel Maker | |||
Basket Assembler | |||
Basket Braider | |||
Basket Maker | |||
Basket Weaver | |||
Bender Machine Operator | |||
Bending Frame Operator | |||
Blind Slat Stapling Machine Operator | |||
Board Finisher | |||
Borer | |||
Boring Machine Operator | |||
Bottom Hoop Driver | |||
Bottom Turning Lathe Tender | |||
Bottom Turning Lathe Turner | |||
Bowl Turner | |||
Box Blank Machine Operator | |||
Box Stapler | |||
Box-Blank-Machine Operator | |||
Briar Cutter | |||
Bucker | |||
Bucket Chucker | |||
Bucket Turner | |||
Cabinet Maker | |||
Checkering Machine Adjuster | |||
Chip Machine Operator | |||
Chip Mixing Machine Operator | |||
Chipper | |||
Chipper Machine Operator | |||
Chucking Machine Operator | |||
Chucking Machine Set Up Operator | |||
Chucking and Boring Machine Operator | |||
Cleat Blanker | |||
Cleat Maker | |||
Cleater | |||
Computer Numerical Control Operator (CNC Operator) | |||
Copy Lathe Tender | |||
Core Composer Feeder | |||
Core Layer Machine Operator | |||
Cork Grinder | |||
Cork Molder | |||
Corrugated Fastener Driver | |||
Corrugator | |||
Creosoting Engineer | |||
Custom Shop Worker | |||
Cylinder Sander Operator | |||
Dado Operator | |||
Dolly Operator | |||
Dollyman | |||
Door Clamper | |||
Doors Prefitter | |||
Double End Trimmer and Boring Machine Operator | |||
Dovetail Machine Operator | |||
Dovetailer | |||
Dowel Inserting Machine Operator | |||
Dowel Machine Operator | |||
Dowel Maker | |||
Doweler | |||
Embossing Machine Operator | |||
End Frazer | |||
End Matcher | |||
End Matcher Operator | |||
End Stapler | |||
End Touching Machine Operator | |||
Excelsior Machine Operator | |||
Excelsior Machine Tender | |||
Fastener | |||
Flake Cutter Operator | |||
Flooring Machine Operator | |||
Foot Miter Operator | |||
Frame Builder | |||
Frame Polisher | |||
Frame Table Operator | |||
Framer | |||
Frazer | |||
Grader | |||
Groover and Striper Operator | |||
Header | |||
Heading Machine Operator | |||
Heading Pinner | |||
Heavy Equipment Operator | |||
Heel Nailing Machine Operator | |||
Hinging Machine Operator | |||
Hoop Expander | |||
Hoop Machine Operator | |||
Hoop Maker | |||
Hoop Riveter | |||
Hooper | |||
Impregnator | |||
Incising Machine Operator | |||
Inletter | |||
Inside Barrel Lathe Operator | |||
Jointer Machine Operator | |||
Jointer Operator | |||
Knife Setter | |||
Knot Saw Operator | |||
Laminating Machine Operator | |||
Laminator | |||
Lap Machine Operator | |||
Lapper | |||
Last Scourer | |||
Last Trimmer | |||
Last Turner | |||
Lathe Operator | |||
Lathe Sander | |||
Lathe Set Up Operator | |||
Lathe Spotter | |||
Linderman | |||
Linderman Machine Operator | |||
Linderman Operator | |||
Line Tender | |||
Lock Corner Machine Operator | |||
Log Cooker | |||
Lumber Press Operator | |||
Lumber Tripper | |||
Machine Bender | |||
Machine Operator | |||
Machine Sander | |||
Machine Setter | |||
Machine Slat Basket Maker | |||
Machine Wood Sander | |||
Machine Woodworking Sander | |||
Machinist | |||
Manufacturing Assistant | |||
Manufacturing Associate | |||
Manufacturing Operator | |||
Miller | |||
Molder Feeder | |||
Molder Operator | |||
Molding Cutter | |||
Molding Sander | |||
Mortising Machine Operator | |||
Multi-Purpose Machine Operator | |||
Multiple Drum Sander | |||
Nail Kegger | |||
Nail Setter | |||
Nail Sticker | |||
Nailer | |||
Nailer Operator | |||
Nailhead Operator | |||
Nailhead Setter | |||
Nailing Machine Operator | |||
Outside Barrel Lathe Operator | |||
Panel Shaper | |||
Pipe and Tank Fabricator | |||
Planer | |||
Planer Operator | |||
Planer Operator / Grader | |||
Planer Setup Operator | |||
Planer Type Milling Machine Setup Operator | |||
Planing Machine Operator | |||
Plow and Boring Machine Tender | |||
Plug Machine Operator | |||
Plugging Machine Operator | |||
Plywood Scarfer Tender | |||
Pole Peeling Machine Operator | |||
Portable Machine Sander | |||
Power Barker | |||
Power Barker Operator | |||
Power Bender Operator | |||
Press Operator | |||
Profile Shaper Operator | |||
Pulley Mortiser Operator | |||
Punch Press Operator | |||
Puncher | |||
Putty Worker | |||
Rabbet Operator | |||
Rafter Cutting Machine Operator | |||
Rail Bender | |||
Retort Engineer | |||
Rodding Machine Tender | |||
Roof Truss Builder | |||
Roof Truss Machine Tender | |||
Rough Planer Tender | |||
Rounding Machine Tender | |||
Router Operator | |||
Router Tender | |||
Sander | |||
Sander Operator | |||
Sanding Machine Buffer | |||
Sanding Machine Operator or Tender | |||
Sanding Machine Tender | |||
Saw Operator | |||
Scooping Machine Tender | |||
Set Up Worker | |||
Set-Up Mechanic | |||
Shake Backboard Notcher | |||
Shank Threader | |||
Shaper Operator | |||
Shook Machine Operator | |||
Shuttle Spotter | |||
Sizing Machine Tender | |||
Skiver | |||
Skiving Machine Operator | |||
Skoog Machine Operator | |||
Skoog Operator | |||
Skoog Patching Machine Operator | |||
Slab Tripper | |||
Slack Cooper | |||
Slat Basket Maker | |||
Slicing Machine Operator/Tender | |||
Slicing Machine Tender | |||
Smoking Pipe Driller and Threader | |||
Spar Machine Operator | |||
Speed Belt Sander | |||
Speed Belt Sander Tender | |||
Spindle Carver | |||
Splicer Operator | |||
Splitter Tender | |||
Splitting Machine Operator | |||
Splitting Machine Tender | |||
Squeezer | |||
Squeezer Operator | |||
Stacker Tender | |||
Stapler | |||
Stapling Machine Operator | |||
Stave Jointer | |||
Stave Machine Tender | |||
Steam Box Operator | |||
Stemhole Borer | |||
Stock Checkerer | |||
Stroke Belt Sander Operator | |||
Swing Type Lathe Operator | |||
Tenon Operator | |||
Tenoner Operator | |||
Timber Sizer | |||
Timber Sizer Operator | |||
Tip Inserter | |||
Tongue and Groove Machine Operator | |||
Touch-Up Carver | |||
Treating Engineer | |||
Trimmer and Borer Machine Operator | |||
Trimming Machine Set-Up Operator | |||
Truss Builder | |||
Turner | |||
Turning Lathe Tender | |||
Turning Machine Set-Up Operator | |||
Turning Sander Operator | |||
Turning Sander Tender | |||
Turret Lathe Operator | |||
Turret Lathe Set Up Operator | |||
Veneer Clipper | |||
Veneer Joiner | |||
Veneer Jointer | |||
Veneer Jointer Operator | |||
Veneer Lathe Operator | |||
Veneer Press Operator | |||
Veneer Slicing Machine Operator | |||
Veneer Splicer | |||
Weaver | |||
Whiting Machine Operator | |||
Wire Stitcher | |||
Wood Borer | |||
Wood Boring Machine Operator | |||
Wood Carving Lathe Operator | |||
Wood Carving Machine Operator | |||
Wood Chopper | |||
Wood Coat Hanger Shaper Machine Operator | |||
Wood Dowel Machine Operator | |||
Wood Drill Operator | |||
Wood Drilling Machine Operator | |||
Wood Gouger | |||
Wood Handler | |||
Wood Heel Back Liner | |||
Wood Lathe Operator | |||
Wood Machine Carver | |||
Wood Miller | |||
Wood Milling Machine Hand | |||
Wood Milling Machine Operator | |||
Wood Milling Machine Tender | |||
Wood Molder | |||
Wood Planer | |||
Wood Router | |||
Wood Router Hand | |||
Wood Turner | |||
Wood Turning Lathe Operator | |||
Woodworking Belt Sander | |||
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