A professional who operates saws to cut planks, timbers, or boards into boards of lesser thickness according to work orders. Responsibilities include:

• Observes lumber on conveyor as lumber approaches saw to determine cut to be made.
• Turns handwheels or manipulates levers to adjust distance between feed rolls and set saw for thickness of board to be cut.
• Depresses levers to control speed of saw and feed rolls.
• Observes automatic feeding of lumber to saw or pushes end of lumber into feed rolls.
• May replace dull saw blades, using handtools.
• May be designated according to type of saw used as band-resaw operator; circular-resaw operator; multiple-resaw operator; horizontal-resaw operator.