According to people in this career, the main tasks are...
| Task | Importance |
|---|---|
| Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines. | 87% |
| Examine finished workpieces for smoothness, shape, angle, depth-of-cut, or conformity to specifications and verify dimensions, visually and using hands, rules, calipers, templates, or gauges. | 87% |
| Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly. | 87% |
| Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications. | 86% |
| Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards. | 86% |
| Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations. | 86% |
| Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules. | 85% |
| Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools. | 84% |
| Determine product specifications and materials, work methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or work orders. | 84% |
| Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components. | 84% |
| Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms. | 83% |
| Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications. | 83% |
| Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, or shaping tools. | 83% |
| Secure woodstock against a guide or in a holding device, place woodstock on a conveyor, or dump woodstock in a hopper to feed woodstock into machines. | 83% |
| Inspect and mark completed workpieces and stack them on pallets, in boxes, or on conveyors so that they can be moved to the next workstation. | 82% |
| Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, or fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely. | 81% |
| Clean or maintain products, machines, or work areas. | 80% |
| Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools. | 80% |
| Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders. | 79% |
| Unclamp workpieces and remove them from machines. | 79% |
| Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times. | 79% |
| Operate gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces. | 75% |
| Set up, program, or control computer-aided design (CAD) or computer numerical control (CNC) machines. | 75% |
| Grease or oil woodworking machines. | 71% |
| Control hoists to remove parts or products from work stations. | 65% |
| Sharpen knives, bits, or other cutting or shaping tools. | 52% |
