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O*NET detailed work activityOperate woodworking equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
4 jobs7 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Operate cutting or grinding equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 7 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
- Set up or operate machines, including power saws, jointers, mortisers, tenoners, molders, or shapers, to cut, mold, or shape woodstock or wood substitutes.
- Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.
- Operate panelboards of saw or conveyor systems to move stock through processes or to cut stock to specified dimensions.
- Operate gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces.
- Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times.