A professional who tends machine that glues and drives dowel pins into holes in parts of wooden articles preparatory to assembly. Responsibilities include:

• Slides stops on machine to align grooves, through which dowels are fed, with holes in wooden part according to work order.
• Dumps dowel pins into hopper and pours glue into glue reservoir.
• Turns valve to regulate pressure and amount of glue injected into holes to prevent wood from splitting when dowels are driven into holes.
• Positions part against stop and depresses pedal to inject glue and drive dowels into holes.
• Releases pedal and removes wooden part from machine.
• Secures position of dowels in wooden parts with nails or staples, using pneumatic nail gun or stapler.
• May mix glue.