Machine operator, timber smoothing/finishing

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.

• 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