Job address
US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Manufacturing
occupation category
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Performs waste reduction and quality operating systems to improve efficiency and effectiveness in operations
- Uses all applicable controls and functions of the caliper(s) for evaluation
- Uses computer aided design software to produce blueprints of components, reads blueprints common to the wood products industry
- Tests and verifies operation of light curtains and mats
- Selects and justifies equipment needed, creates production sequences and processes
- Selects knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to work piece, machine functions, or product specifications
- Controls hoists to remove parts or products from work stations
- Ensures safe hand position and/or push blocks are used when appropriate
- Recognizes faults and assesses if recovery is possible
- Verifies dimensions, visually and using hands, rulers, calipers, templates, or gauges
- Follows safety guidelines and does not reach into the machine processing area while the machine is in operation
- Cleans equipment including but not limited to roller application and glue pots
- Determines product specifications and materials, work methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or work orders
- Isolates the cause of why a sensor shuts down the press
- Sharpens knives, bits, or other cutting or shaping tools
- Installs and adjusts blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules
- Marks cutting lines or identifies information on stock, using marking pencils, rules, or scribes
- Inspects all aspects of feed table to ensure it is set to manufacturer's specifications
- Ensures tools are in working condition; capable of being properly zeroed out and holding calibration
- Maintains production records, such as quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced
- Moves stock or scrap to and from machines manually, or by using carts, hand trucks, or lift trucks
- Purges and refills glue from equipment/ dowel insertion and replenishing
- Starts machines and moves levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms; disengages lifts after appropriate drying times
- Creates mechanical detail drawings using computer-aided drafting (CAD) tools, other techniques and tools
- Confirms safety equipment is operating appropriately
- Analyzes the cause of quality defects, machine/equipment issues
- Processes materials safely and effectively, taking into account material characteristics
- Trims wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders
- Determines why tool steel is chipping or showing premature wear
- Adjusts machine tables or cutting devices and sets controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations
- Ensures grain direction as well as bow/warp are correctly identified and appropriately considered for feed
- Examines finished workpieces for smoothness, shape, angle, depth-of-cut, or conformity to specifications
- Ensures stock is fed in smooth, continuous motion past cutter head
- Operates machines/tools, and performs bench operations safely, effectively, and accurately
- Ensures tool/machine manufacturer's safety rules and guidelines are followed
- Ensures machine and work area are cleaned after operation and that required OSHA approved personal protective equipment is worn
- Changes alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools
- Ensures hold-downs are positioned correctly at in-feed and out-feed for clearance to feed material
- Selects tooling/machinery to safely and accurately perform all required processing operations within the specified tolerances on a part print
- Starts machines, adjusts controls, and makes trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly
- Sets up, programs, or controls computer-aided design (CAD) or computer numerical control (CNC) machines
- Maintains necessary records relating to work to be done, completed work and shop inventories, and requisitions all necessary materials and supplies
- Determines why die components are breaking and observes why scrap or materials are accumulating in the die
- Ensures scrap and offal is removed from the machine prior to processing material
- Ensures vacuum pod gaskets or table surface gaskets are free of cuts, tears and defects; inspects materials for nails, staples or foreign materials before processing
- Examines raw woodstock for defects to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards
- Implements approaches to address the causes of quality defects, machine or equipment issues
- Removes and replaces worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, or shaping tools
- Operates gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces
- Uses panel support rails to assist with large panel movement and placement
- Adheres to OSHA regulations, industry safety practices and policy
- Attaches and adjusts guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools
- Brings in maintenance team to reset the fault
- Calculates cutting speeds and feeds and applies these calculations while performing required operations
- Cleans, connects, and verifies short feed detectors and sensors
- Ensures paths of in-feed and out-feed have no obstructions to material and operator
- Operates cranes, or signal crane operators to position or remove stone from cars or saw beds
- Reads strip and isolates the cause of why strip is not feeding straight into or through die
- Confirms program tonnage monitor is set to predetermined engineering specifications
- Ensures spindle height and/or angle are set to specified dimension(s)
- Pushes or holds workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms
- Inspects pulleys, drive belts, guards, or fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely
- Inspects and marks completed workpieces and stacks them on pallets, in boxes, or on conveyors so that they can be moved to the next workstation
- Feeds stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components
- Monitors operation of machines and makes adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications
