Machine operator, timber etching
NKPD code: 75232011
Current information as of 2026-11-14
10th grade
Second degree of professional qualification and/or completed 10th grade
Labor Characteristics
Woodworking-machine tool setters and operators set up, or operate and monitor, automatic or semi-automatic woodworking machines such as precision sawing, shaping, planing, boring, turning and wood-carving machines to make or repair wooden parts for furniture or other wooden articles.
Main Tasks
- setting up, programming, operating and monitoring various woodworking machines for sawing, shaping, planing, boring, turning, sanding and carving to make or repair wooden parts for furniture or other wooden articles;
- operating pre-set special-purpose woodworking machines to produce wooden articles such as coat hangers, brush handles, clothes pegs and others;
- selecting knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, discs and bits according to the parts to be made, machine functions and technical specifications;
- installing and adjusting blades, cutter heads, drill bits and sanding and polishing belts using hand tools and diagrams;
- starting up and adjusting various woodworking machines;
- reading and explaining specifications and giving oral instructions.
- Examples of occupations in this unit group:
- Setter-operator, woodworking machine
- Setter-operator, wood-turning lathe
- Turner, wood
- Machine operator, timber engraving
- Machine operator, carving
- Machine operator, furniture production
- Cutter, chain conveyor
Not Included
- Assembler, wooden articles – 8219
Professions in "Woodworking-machine tool setters and operators"
Machine operator, timber markingMachine operator, timber engravingMachine operator, joineryMachine operator, timber bendingMachine operator, timber smoothing/finishingMachine operator, wooden productsMachine operator, carvingMachine operator, wood staining and paintingMachine operator, timber polishingMachine operator, furniture productionMachine operator, wooden sports equipmentSetter-operator, woodworking machineSetter-operator, wood stacking machineSetter-operator, cross-turning machineSetter-operator, planing machineSetter-operator, wood-turning latheCutter, chain conveyorTurner, wood
Source: National Statistical Institute
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