A professional who sets up and operates machine to cut, croze, slot, shape, and incise materials for prefabricated wooden tanks or pipes. Responsibilities include:

• Lays out materials for tank bottoms and clamps material together on platform, using screw clamps.
• Bolts machine pivot to center of work material and attaches radial-arm bandsaw to pivot, using overhead hoist.
• Starts saw and removes clamps and sawed pieces as saw moves around radius of tank bottom material.
• Removes saw, attaches shaper to radial-arm, and bevels outside edges of material.
• Saws pipe and tank stave material to specified size, using trim saw.
• Operates straight or curve line crozing machine to bevel or croze end of tank staves that fit into bevel on bottom of tank.
• Operates stave slotting machine to cut slots in ends of staves.
• Inserts wood or metal splines in slotted ends of staves by hand.
• Operates incising machine to incise straight or curved staves and tank pieces for wood preserving treatment.
• Measures and cuts plates, rafters, trusses, headers, center posts and hatches for flat or conical roofs on tanks, using bandsaw, shaper, jointer, drill press, and handtools.
• Constructs wooden floats and measuring boards for liquid level indicators on tanks.
• May operate dowel-boring machine.
• May operate radial shaping machine to form laminated rings for wooden pipe.