A professional who off bears material at discharge end of machines that cut, smooth, bore, or shape woodstock. Responsibilities include:

• Stacks woodstock aside or loads woodstock on truck, pallet, or conveyor for movement to additional processing stations.
• May count and examine woodstock to detect manufacturing defects.
• May reposition woodstock and feed woodstock into machine or back to operator for subsequent processing.
• May depress pedal to raise or lower conveyor to facilitate stacking.
• May discard scrap or defective pieces of woodstock into scrap containers or onto conveyor for burning.
• May place sticks between specified intervals of stacked woodstock to provide air circulation and increase stability of stack.
• May be designated according to machine assigned as jointer offbearer; molder offbearer; planer offbearer; saw offbearer; tenoner offbearer.