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Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

District Of Columbia

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Set up, operate, or tend wood sawing machines. May operate CNC equipment. Includes lead sawyers.

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Typical education needed for entry: High school diploma or equivalent

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Typical on-the-job training once you have a job in this occupation: Short-term on-the-job training

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Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
Inspect and measure workpieces to mark for cuts and to verify the accuracy of cuts, using rulers, squares, or caliper rules.
Examine logs or lumber to plan the best cuts.
Set up, operate, or tend saws or machines that cut or trim wood to specified dimensions, such as circular saws, band saws, multiple-blade sawing machines, scroll saws, ripsaws, or crozer machines.
Inspect stock for imperfections or to estimate grades or qualities of stock or workpieces.
Operate panelboards of saw or conveyor systems to move stock through processes or to cut stock to specified dimensions.
Measure and mark stock for cuts.
Mount and bolt sawing blades or attachments to machine shafts.
Monitor sawing machines, adjusting speed and tension and clearing jams to ensure proper operation.
Examine blueprints, drawings, work orders, or patterns to determine equipment set-up or selection details, procedures to be used, or dimensions of final products.

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