A professional who sets up and operates machine with multiple cutterheads to simultaneously saw, bore, groove, shape, and sand woodstock to form furniture parts. Responsibilities include:

• Reads work ticket to determine machining operations required to form specified furniture parts.
• Selects, installs, and adjusts blades, bits, cutter knives, and sanding belts, according to specifications, using handtools.
• Attaches specified forms that hold woodstock during machining operations to automatic carriage holding device of machine, using handtools.
• Selects and installs punch cards into machine control panel that determine sequence and duration of machining operations.
• Presses buttons to start machine, positions woodstock in holding forms, and adjusts clamps to secure woodstock in form.
• Presses button to activate automatic machining cycle.
• Removes processed parts from holding form and verifies finished dimensions, using steel tape rule, gauges, and calipers.
• Stacks finished parts in storage area.