A professional who operates gangsaw or sash-gangsaw to cut lumber from cants. Responsibilities include:

• Moves hand and foot levers to shift cants from chain conveyor table to live rolls and align cants with saws.
• Starts machine and turns handwheels to adjust feed and tension rollers and speed of machine.
• May adjust saws to vary width of cuts, using handtools.
• May replace saw blades.
• May be designated according to type of saw operated as circular-gang-saw operator; sash-gang-saw operator.