A professional who sets up and operates single- or multiple-blade machine to cut grooves, notches, recesses, rabbets, lap joints, and tenons in wooden parts. Responsibilities include:

• Examines drawings, blueprints, or samples and written specifications and selects and installs saws, dado heads, and spacers, using rule and wrenches.
• Turns handwheels to move guide fence and adjust table height to attain specified location and depth of cut.
• Starts machine and pushes wooden parts past cutting heads by hand, or inserts parts between feed rolls that carry parts through machine.
• May be designated according to type of saws used as warble-saw operator; or according to part and cut made as cleat notcher; partition notcher; strap recesser.