A professional who sets up and operates single- or multiple-spindle routing machine to cut slots, grooves, designs, or recesses in woodstock. Responsibilities include:

• Studies blueprints, drawings, or samples and written specifications to ascertain size, depth, and location of cuts to be made.
• Selects and installs router bits in spindle chucks according to specifications, using chuck key.
• Spaces spindles on shaft at specified intervals, using wrenches, and turns handwheels or sets stops to regulate depth of cut.
• Clamps stock to jig, inserts pin in guidehole of machine table, and places jig over guide pin, or clamps part to movable table of machine.
• Starts machine and presses pedal to raise table and feed stock into rotating bits.
• Moves stock under bits, following guides, lines, or slots in jig, to cut specified slots, designs, grooves, or recesses in stock.
• Measures dimensions of processed woodstock to verify conformance to specifications, using ruler, gauges, or calipers.
• May be designated according to machine operated as multiple-spindle-router operator; or according to cut made as handhole-machine operator.