What this code covers
Woodworking machine tool setters and operators set-up or operate and monitor automatic or semi-automatic woodworking machines, such as precision sawing, shaping, planning, boring, turning and woodcarving machines to fabricate or repair wooden parts for furniture, fixtures and other wooden products. Their tasks include: a) 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; b) operating preset special-purpose woodworking machines to fabricate wooden products such as coat hangers, mop handles, clothes pins and other products; c) selecting knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts according to workpiece, machine functions and product specifications; d) installing and adjusting blades, cutterheads, boring-bits and sanding-belts, and using hand tools and rules; e) setting and adjusting various kinds of woodworking machines for operation by others; f) reading and interpreting specifications or following verbal instructions. Examples of the occupations classified here: Carving machine operator (wood), Furniture production machine operator, Precision woodworking sawyer, Wood lathe setter-operator, Wood products machine operator, Wood routing machine setter-operator, Wood turner, Wood-planing machine setter-operator, Wood-shaping machine setter-operator, Wood-spindle-carving machine setter-operator, Woodworking lathe operator, Woodworking machine setter-operator Some related occupations classified elsewhere: Wood and related products assemblers - 8219