Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

Key skills

A typical day

• •Inspect and measure workpieces to mark for cuts and to verify the accuracy of cuts, using rulers, squares, or caliper rules.
• •Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
• •Mount and bolt sawing blades or attachments to machine shafts.
• •Set up, operate, or tend saws or machines that cut or trim wood to specified dimensions, such as circular saws, band saws, multiple-blade sawing machines, scroll saws, ripsaws, or crozer machines.
• •Inspect stock for imperfections or to estimate grades or qualities of stock or workpieces.

Fields of study

Any field