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Overview for Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

SOC Code: 51-7042
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  • Career Cluster

    Manufacturing

  • Career Pathway

    • Production

Occupation Description

Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment. Workers who primarily program or operate CNC equipment are classified in “Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators and Programmers” (51-9160).

Annual Wages

Created with Highcharts 11.4.0$38,310 - Annual Median Wage$37.5K
  • 10th Percentile $31240
  • 25th Percentile $35210
  • Median $38310
  • 75th Percentile $45230
  • 90th Percentile $48280

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Occupation Average Wage Typical Entry Level Education Current Openings
Occupation
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Bargraph indicating percent
100%
Average Wage
$39,930/year
$19.20/hour
Typical Entry Level Education
High school diploma or equivalent
Current Openings
10
Occupation
Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
Bargraph indicating percent
81%
Average Wage
$41,350/year
$19.88/hour
Typical Entry Level Education
High school diploma or equivalent
Current Openings
22
Occupation
Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Bargraph indicating percent
80%
Average Wage
$38,030/year
$18.28/hour
Typical Entry Level Education
High school diploma or equivalent
Current Openings
18
Occupation
Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Bargraph indicating percent
79%
Average Wage
$46,780/year
$22.49/hour
Typical Entry Level Education
High school diploma or equivalent
Current Openings
106
Occupation
Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Bargraph indicating percent
79%
Average Wage
$42,760/year
$20.56/hour
Typical Entry Level Education
High school diploma or equivalent
Current Openings
226

Current Openings by County

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Number of Jobs

Created with Highcharts 11.4.0Number of JobsBase-Year 2022Projected-Year 20320500100015002000250030003500Highcharts.com
Average Annual
  • Job Growth .48%
  • Job Openings 313

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Common Job Titles

  • Barrel Maker
  • Blind Slat Stapling Machine Operator
  • Bucket Chucker
  • Computer Numerical Control Operator (CNC Operator)
  • Core Layer Machine Operator

Typical Tasks

  • Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
  • Examine finished workpieces for smoothness, shape, angle, depth-of-cut, or conformity to specifications and verify dimensions, visually and using hands, rules, calipers, templates, or gauges.
  • Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.
  • Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.
  • Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
  • Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
  • Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
  • Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.
  • Determine product specifications and materials, work methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or work orders.
  • Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.