A professional who sets up and operates machine to saw woodstock to specified length and to shape ends of stock to fit into mortises (recesses) of opposing wooden parts. Responsibilities include:

• Selects knives according to diameter of cut specified on work ticket.
• Aligns and bolts knives in cutterhead and screws it on spindle, using wrenches.
• Adjusts angle of table by turning handwheel and bolts or clamps holding jigs to table.
• Places stock in jig and pushes table containing stock into circular saw to trim end of stock.
• Pulls table back against stops and depresses pedal to advance cutterhead that shapes end of stock.