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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cutting and corrugating shuttle chambers, shaping tapered shuttle ends, cutting grooves and slots, and in performing related duties to assemble component parts of wooden shuttles.
* Sets up machines.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in sawing ends of seasoned wooden blocks, planing surfaces, and boring, scoring, and tapering ends to shape blocks into shuttle blanks.
* Sets up woodworking machines.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cutting fiber veneer strips and gluing strips on wooden shuttles.
* Sets up and operates shearing, shaping, and surfacing machines.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in sawing, shaping, and assembling woodstock to form furniture frames and mock-ups. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews production schedules and confers with department head to determine production priorities, availability of equipment and personnel, and processing changes.
* Examines furniture parts during machining and assembly, and directs workers to change machine setup or work techniques to eliminate defects.
* Reassigns workers or performs duties of absentee workers.
* Operates woodworking machines, such as bandsaw, ripsaw, and boring machine to cut woodstock to specifications.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who adjusts and maintains semiautomatic checkering machines that cut decorative gripping surfaces on wooden gun stocks and forearms. Responsibilities include:
* Bends springs and turns setscrews to adjust stops and cams that regulate length of stroke and depth of cut produced, using handtools.
* Replaces worn parts, such as microswitches, pulley belts, and motor brushes.
* May give instructions to new operators in use of machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles and inspects samples of furniture parts to determine conformity to specifications prior to mass production of parts. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects and measures samples of furniture parts to determine conformity to specifications, using ruler, caliper, protractor, and square.
* Discusses with machining supervisor alternate machine setup to correct defects, utilizing knowledge of wood and woodworking machines.
* Fits and knocks parts together to form furniture, using mallet.
* Secures parts together, using clamps.
* Examines assembled furniture to determine conformity of appearance to finish sketch of furniture.
* Notifies production superintendent when parts and assembled furniture meet production specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates variety of woodworking machines to surface, cut, and shape lumber, and to fabricate parts for wood products, such as doors, door and window frames, furniture, and sashes, according to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Selects, installs, and adjusts saw blades, cutterheads, boring bits, and sanding belts in respective machines, using handtools and rule.
* Starts machine and makes trial cut.
* Operates machines to saw; to smooth and shape lumber and wood parts; to cut tenons and mortises in woodstock; to bore holes; to cut slots, grooves, and designs in woodstock; and to sand lumber, woodstock, and parts.
* Periodically verifies dimensions of parts for adherence to specifications, using gauges and templates.
* May assemble fabricated parts to make millwork products, such as doors, sashes, and door and window frames.
* May sharpen machine cutting heads, using handtools and grinder.
* May be designated according to products as door maker; frame maker; sash maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates variety of woodworking machines to surface, cut, and shape lumber, and to fabricate parts for wood products, such as doors, door and window frames, furniture, and sashes, according to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Selects, installs, and adjusts saw blades, cutterheads, boring bits, and sanding belts in respective machines, using handtools and rule.
* Starts machine and makes trial cut.
* Operates machines to saw; to smooth and shape lumber and wood parts; to cut tenons and mortises in woodstock; to bore holes; to cut slots, grooves, and designs in woodstock; and to sand lumber, woodstock, and parts.
* Periodically verifies dimensions of parts for adherence to specifications, using gauges and templates.
* May assemble fabricated parts to make millwork products, such as doors, sashes, and door and window frames.
* May sharpen machine cutting heads, using handtools and grinder.
* May be designated according to products as door maker; frame maker; sash maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to cut, croze, slot, shape, and incise materials for prefabricated wooden tanks or pipes. Responsibilities include:
* Lays out materials for tank bottoms and clamps material together on platform, using screw clamps.
* Bolts machine pivot to center of work material and attaches radial-arm bandsaw to pivot, using overhead hoist.
* Starts saw and removes clamps and sawed pieces as saw moves around radius of tank bottom material.
* Removes saw, attaches shaper to radial-arm, and bevels outside edges of material.
* Saws pipe and tank stave material to specified size, using trim saw.
* Operates straight or curve line crozing machine to bevel or croze end of tank staves that fit into bevel on bottom of tank.
* Operates stave slotting machine to cut slots in ends of staves.
* Inserts wood or metal splines in slotted ends of staves by hand.
* Operates incising machine to incise straight or curved staves and tank pieces for wood preserving treatment.
* Measures and cuts plates, rafters, trusses, headers, center posts and hatches for flat or conical roofs on tanks, using bandsaw, shaper, jointer, drill press, and handtools.
* Constructs wooden floats and measuring boards for liquid level indicators on tanks.
* May operate dowel-boring machine.
* May operate radial shaping machine to form laminated rings for wooden pipe.
Industry:Professional careers
