MACHINE OPERATOR

Position Summary:  Set up, operate, or tend woodworking equipment in production work involving surfacing, cutting, shaping, and fabricating wood product parts utilizing skills and dexterity in the operating, feeding and disposing functions.

Level 3 operates one or more key machines:

Band Saw, Shaper, Mortise Machine Operator, Utility, Profile Operator, Molder Operator, Frame Inventory Operator/Coordinator, Frame CNC/CAD, Frame Product Development.

Position Responsibilities:

•            Operate woodworking machines.

•            Inspects the quality of all work.

•            Makes machine adjustments to ensure satisfactory production.

•            Inspects work for defects and machined parts to ensure job specifications are maintained.

•            May pull required fixtures, holding devices and material.

•            May insert tools in tool holders or install pre-set tolls in machine.

•            May set tools as necessary.

•            May adjust tool travel distance.

•            May input required program instructions.

•            Selects, set up, installs, and adjusts saw blades, cutter heads, and boring bits using hand tools and rule.

•            Starts machine and makes trial cut.

•            Operates machines to saw (variety saw); smooth and shape wood parts; trim (double end trim) to cut tenons and mortises (tenon machine); to bore holes (boring machine); to cut slots, grooves, and designs in wood stock (router).

Essential Skills and Experience:

•            Operation Monitoring — Watch gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

•            Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

Physical demands and work environment:

•            Physical demands: Lifting not in Excess of 50 lbs.; team lift greater weights. Frequently moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.

•            Work environment: Exposure to dust and loud noise for prolonged period of time.

•            Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

•            Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

•            Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

•            Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

•            Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

•            Listening: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

•            Speaking: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

•            Multi limb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

•            Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.