Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Tasks Include:
- Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.
- 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.
- Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
- Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.
- Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
- Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: -0.8%
National: +3.3%
Education
High School Diploma
Job Zone:
Two: Some Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Moderately High ($36,000 - $49,999)
Median Earnings:
National
$36,830.00
State
$31,680.00
Regional
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Description
Career Cluster: | Manufacturing |
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.
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Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Education
Required Level of Education
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 73.06%
- Less than a High School Diploma = 20.67%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 4.55%
- Bachelor's Degree = 1.72%
Related Work Experience
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 25.88%
- None = 21.69%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 15.62%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 9.61%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 8.46%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 7.57%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 7.10%
- Up to and including 1 month = 4.05%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- None = 30.98%
- Up to and including 1 month = 29.24%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 14.14%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 12.21%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 9.25%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 2.60%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 1.57%
On-the-Job Training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 33.33%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 25.40%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 18.51%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 9.70%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 8.62%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 4.44%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.
- 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.
- Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
- Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.
- Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
- Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.
- 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.
- Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
- Inspect and mark completed workpieces and stack them on pallets, in boxes, or on conveyors so that they can be moved to the next workstation.
- Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.
- Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.
- Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, or fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely.
- Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, or shaping tools.
- Secure woodstock against a guide or in a holding device, place woodstock on a conveyor, or dump woodstock in a hopper to feed woodstock into machines.
- Clean or maintain products, machines, or work areas.
- Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
- Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
- Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders.
- Grease or oil woodworking machines.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Set up, program, or control computer-aided design (CAD) or computer numerical control (CNC) machines.
- Operate gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces.
- Sharpen knives, bits, or other cutting or shaping tools.
- Unclamp workpieces and remove them from machines.
- Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times.
- Control hoists to remove parts or products from work stations.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Adjustable wrenches (Adjustable hand wrenches)
- Power saws (Automatic panel saws)
- Power grinders (Bench grinders)
- Biscuit jointers
- Boring tools (Boring bars)
- Boring machines
- Positioning jig (Case clamps)
- Hammers (Claw hammers)
- Squares (Combination squares)
- Mainframe console or dumb terminals (Computer terminals)
- Boring machines (Computerized numerical control CNC boring machines)
- Conveyor feeders
- Desktop computers
- Calipers (Dial calipers)
- Calipers (Digital calipers)
- Compasses (Dividers)
- Cutting machines (Double end tenoners)
- Drilling machines (Drill presses)
- Sanding machines (Edge sanders)
- Grease guns
- Lathes (Hand lathes)
- Saws (Handsaws)
- Height gauges
- Hold down clamps (Holding clamps)
- Positioning jig (Holding jigs)
- Hydraulic press frames (Hydraulic hot presses)
- Lathes
- Templates (Layout templates)
- Boring machines (Line boring machines)
- Milling machines (Machining centers)
- Power nail guns (Nailing machines)
- Paint brushes (Paint application brushes)
- Planing machines (Planers)
- Planing machines
- Pneumatic sanding machines
- Power routers
- Power sanders
- Rulers (Precision rulers)
- Grinding machines (Profile grinders)
- Ear muffs (Protective ear muffs)
- Protractors
- Power sanders (Random orbital sanders)
- Safety glasses
- Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
- Boring machines (Screw pocket machines)
- Planes (Shapers)
- Gear shapers (Shaping machines)
- Planes (Spindle shapers)
- Hand sprayers (Spray guns)
- Cutting machines (Tenoners)
- Lathes (Turning lathes)
- Calipers (Vernier calipers)
- Sanding machines (Wide belt sanders)
- Files (Wood files)
- Wood chisels (Woodworking chisels)
Technologies Include:
- Industrial control software
- Computerized numerical control CNC software
- Inventory management software
- Inventory control software
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Time accounting software
- Timekeeping software
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Special Requirements
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Education and Training. Employers seek applicants with a high school diploma or the equivalent due to the growing sophistication of machinery and the constant need for retraining. People seeking woodworking jobs can enhance their employment and advancement prospects by completing high school and receiving training in mathematics, science, and computer applications.
Woodworkers increasingly acquire skills through higher education. For many workers, this means earning a degree from a vocational or trade school. Others may attend colleges or universities that offer training in wood technology, furniture manufacturing, wood engineering, and production management. These programs prepare students for positions in production, supervision, engineering, and management and are increasingly important as woodworking technology advances.
Most woodworkers are trained on the job, however, picking up skills informally from experienced workers. They can learn basic machine operations and job tasks in a few months, but becoming a skilled woodworker often requires 2 or more years.
Beginners usually observe and help experienced machine operators. They may supply material to, or remove fabricated products from, machines. Trainees also do simple machine operating jobs while closely supervised by experienced workers. As beginners gain experience, they perform more complex jobs with less supervision. Some may learn to read blueprints, set up machines, and plan the sequence of the work.
Other qualifications. In addition to training, woodworkers need mechanical ability, manual dexterity, and the ability to pay attention to detail and safety. As the industry becomes more sophisticated, skill with computers and computer-controlled machinery is becoming more important.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: Virginia Career VIEW Research. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
56.50 | Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Skills
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
65.50 | Operations Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
62.50 | Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
56.25 | Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
53.00 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
50.00 | Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
50.00 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
50.00 | Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
50.00 | Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
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65.50 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
65.50 | Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
62.50 | Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
62.50 | Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
59.50 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
56.25 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
56.25 | Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
56.25 | Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. |
56.25 | Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. |
53.00 | Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
53.00 | Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. |
53.00 | Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
53.00 | Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
53.00 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
53.00 | Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
53.00 | Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
50.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
50.00 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
50.00 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
50.00 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
50.00 | Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
50.00 | Dynamic Strength | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. |
50.00 | Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
50.00 | Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. |
50.00 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
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75.00 | Controlling Machines and Processes | Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
72.50 | Handling and Moving Objects | Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
69.75 | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials | Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
65.25 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
62.75 | Performing General Physical Activities | Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
60.25 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
55.75 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
54.25 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
50.75 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
50.50 | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People | Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
50.50 | Processing Information | Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
85.00 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
80.25 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
67.75 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
67.00 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
65.25 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
63.25 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
63.25 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
62.25 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
62.00 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
61.00 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
58.75 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
58.00 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
57.00 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
52.50 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
77.83 | Support | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
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99.80 | Exposed to Contaminants | How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? |
97.00 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
96.20 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
95.60 | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable | How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? |
94.80 | Spend Time Standing | How much does this job require standing? |
93.60 | Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in non-controlled environmental conditions (e.g., warehouse without heat)? |
90.80 | Exposed to Hazardous Equipment | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment? |
88.00 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
86.80 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
86.40 | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets | How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? |
83.80 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
79.20 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
76.60 | Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body | How much does this job require bending or twisting your body? |
75.00 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
74.00 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
73.60 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
72.80 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
71.60 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
70.20 | Very Hot or Cold Temperatures | How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures? |
68.20 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
67.60 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
66.80 | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings | How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? |
66.40 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
66.00 | Spend Time Walking and Running | How much does this job require walking and running? |
63.60 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
63.40 | Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment | How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.) |
61.00 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
59.80 | Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions | How often does this job require working in cramped work spaces that requires getting into awkward positions? |
56.00 | Consequence of Error | How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
55.20 | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People | How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? |
53.80 | Exposed to Hazardous Conditions | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions? |
52.80 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
52.20 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
51.60 | Frequency of Conflict Situations | How often are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job? |
51.40 | Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling | How much does this job require kneeling, crouching, stooping or crawling? |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
- Examples
- These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, counter and rental clerks, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, tellers, and dental laboratory technicians.
- Education
- These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $27,910.00 | $36,830.00 | $44,290.00 |
Virginia | $24,160.00 | $31,680.00 | $37,350.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Bay Consortium | $28,148.86 | $37,394.60 | $43,553.56 |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $26,995.22 | $36,190.94 | $40,169.78 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $27,179.68 | $34,711.12 | $40,456.36 |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | $25,632.12 | $36,010.65 | $37,519.65 |
Hampton Roads | $27,878.95 | $35,273.87 | $38,402.33 |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $25,832.21 | $31,014.70 | $34,297.40 |
Northern Virginia and Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | $31,229.38 | $37,725.99 | $43,163.81 |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | $27,048.37 | $32,112.06 | $36,551.52 |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | $26,564.83 | $32,073.50 | $37,467.55 |
Western Virginia | $28,479.21 | $38,365.86 | $50,314.87 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 69,400 | 71,700 | +3.3% |
Virginia | 2,136 | 2,119 | -0.8% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Bay Consortium | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | 280 | 296 | +5.7% |
Central VA/Region2000 | 110 | 109 | -0.9% |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | 110 | 110 | +0.0% |
New River/Mt. Rogers | 331 | 315 | -4.8% |
Northern Virginia and Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | 224 | 229 | +2.2% |
Shenandoah Valley | 242 | 240 | -0.8% |
South Central | 185 | 173 | -6.5% |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | 196 | 176 | -10.2% |
Western Virginia | 203 | 203 | +0.0% |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
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- Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Cutters and Trimmers, Hand
- Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Dental Laboratory Technicians
- Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers
- Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers
- Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
- Etchers and Engravers
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers
- Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders
- Food Batchmakers
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
- Food Processing Workers, All Other
- Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Foundry Mold and Coremakers
- Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders
- Furniture Finishers
- Gas Plant Operators
- Gem and Diamond Workers
- Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Helpers--Production Workers
- Hydroelectric Plant Technicians
- Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
- Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Machinists
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
- Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other
- Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
- Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Model Makers, Metal and Plastic
- Model Makers, Wood
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Nuclear Power Reactor Operators
- Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians
- Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
- Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers
- Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic
- Patternmakers, Wood
- Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
- Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators
- Plant and System Operators, All Other
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Potters, Manufacturing
- Pourers and Casters, Metal
- Power Distributors and Dispatchers
- Power Plant Operators
- Production Workers, All Other
- Recycling and Reclamation Workers
- Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
- Semiconductor Processing Technicians
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Sewers, Hand
- Sewing Machine Operators
- Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers
- Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders
- Slaughterers and Meat Packers
- Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing
- Team Assemblers
- Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
- Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other
- Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters
- Tire Builders
- Tool and Die Makers
- Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
- Upholsterers
- Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
- Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Woodworkers, All Other
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
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Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
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important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Titles
- Adzing and Boring Machine Operator
- Artificial Log Machine Operator
- Automatic Clipper
- Automatic Lathe Setup and Tooler
- Automatic Nailing Machine Operator
- Automatic Profile Shaper Operator
- Balloon Sander
- Band Nailer
- Band Saw Operator
- Bander
- Bander Operator
- Barker Operator
- Barrel Builder
- Barrel Charrer
- Barrel Lathe Operator
- Barrel Maker
- Basket Assembler
- Basket Braider
- Basket Maker
- Basket Weaver
- Bender Machine Operator
- Bending Frame Operator
- Blind Slat Stapling Machine Operator
- Board Finisher
- Borer
- Boring Machine Operator
- Bottom Hoop Driver
- Bottom Turning Lathe Tender
- Bottom Turning Lathe Turner
- Bowl Turner
- Box Blank Machine Operator
- Box Stapler
- Box-Blank-Machine Operator
- Briar Cutter
- Bucker
- Bucket Chucker
- Bucket Turner
- Cabinet Maker
- Checkering Machine Adjuster
- Chip Machine Operator
- Chip Mixing Machine Operator
- Chipper
- Chipper Machine Operator
- Chucking and Boring Machine Operator
- Chucking Machine Operator
- Chucking Machine Set Up Operator
- Cleat Blanker
- Cleat Maker
- Cleater
- Computer Numerical Control Operator (CNC Operator)
- Copy Lathe Tender
- Core Composer Feeder
- Core Layer Machine Operator
- Cork Grinder
- Cork Molder
- Corrugated Fastener Driver
- Corrugator
- Creosoting Engineer
- Custom Shop Worker
- Cylinder Sander Operator
- Dado Operator
- Dolly Operator
- Dollyman
- Door Clamper
- Doors Prefitter
- Double End Trimmer and Boring Machine Operator
- Dovetail Machine Operator
- Dovetailer
- Dowel Inserting Machine Operator
- Dowel Machine Operator
- Dowel Maker
- Doweler
- Embossing Machine Operator
- End Frazer
- End Matcher
- End Matcher Operator
- End Stapler
- End Touching Machine Operator
- Excelsior Machine Operator
- Excelsior Machine Tender
- Fastener
- Flake Cutter Operator
- Flooring Machine Operator
- Foot Miter Operator
- Frame Builder
- Frame Polisher
- Frame Table Operator
- Framer
- Frazer
- Grader
- Groover and Striper Operator
- Header
- Heading Machine Operator
- Heading Pinner
- Heavy Equipment Operator
- Heel Nailing Machine Operator
- Hinging Machine Operator
- Hoop Expander
- Hoop Machine Operator
- Hoop Maker
- Hoop Riveter
- Hooper
- Impregnator
- Incising Machine Operator
- Inletter
- Inside Barrel Lathe Operator
- Jointer Machine Operator
- Jointer Operator
- Knife Setter
- Knot Saw Operator
- Laminating Machine Operator
- Laminator
- Lap Machine Operator
- Lapper
- Last Scourer
- Last Trimmer
- Last Turner
- Lathe Operator
- Lathe Sander
- Lathe Set Up Operator
- Lathe Spotter
- Linderman
- Linderman Machine Operator
- Linderman Operator
- Line Tender
- Lock Corner Machine Operator
- Log Cooker
- Lumber Press Operator
- Lumber Tripper
- Machine Bender
- Machine Operator
- Machine Sander
- Machine Setter
- Machine Slat Basket Maker
- Machine Wood Sander
- Machine Woodworking Sander
- Machinist
- Manufacturing Assistant
- Manufacturing Associate
- Manufacturing Operator
- Miller
- Molder Feeder
- Molder Operator
- Molding Cutter
- Molding Sander
- Mortising Machine Operator
- Multi-Purpose Machine Operator
- Multiple Drum Sander
- Nail Kegger
- Nail Setter
- Nail Sticker
- Nailer
- Nailer Operator
- Nailhead Operator
- Nailhead Setter
- Nailing Machine Operator
- Outside Barrel Lathe Operator
- Panel Shaper
- Pipe and Tank Fabricator
- Planer
- Planer Operator
- Planer Operator / Grader
- Planer Setup Operator
- Planer Type Milling Machine Setup Operator
- Planing Machine Operator
- Plow and Boring Machine Tender
- Plug Machine Operator
- Plugging Machine Operator
- Plywood Scarfer Tender
- Pole Peeling Machine Operator
- Portable Machine Sander
- Power Barker
- Power Barker Operator
- Power Bender Operator
- Press Operator
- Profile Shaper Operator
- Pulley Mortiser Operator
- Punch Press Operator
- Puncher
- Putty Worker
- Rabbet Operator
- Rafter Cutting Machine Operator
- Rail Bender
- Retort Engineer
- Rodding Machine Tender
- Roof Truss Builder
- Roof Truss Machine Tender
- Rough Planer Tender
- Rounding Machine Tender
- Router Operator
- Router Tender
- Sander
- Sander Operator
- Sanding Machine Buffer
- Sanding Machine Operator or Tender
- Sanding Machine Tender
- Saw Operator
- Scooping Machine Tender
- Set Up Worker
- Set-Up Mechanic
- Shake Backboard Notcher
- Shank Threader
- Shaper Operator
- Shook Machine Operator
- Shuttle Spotter
- Sizing Machine Tender
- Skiver
- Skiving Machine Operator
- Skoog Machine Operator
- Skoog Operator
- Skoog Patching Machine Operator
- Slab Tripper
- Slack Cooper
- Slat Basket Maker
- Slicing Machine Operator/Tender
- Slicing Machine Tender
- Smoking Pipe Driller and Threader
- Spar Machine Operator
- Speed Belt Sander
- Speed Belt Sander Tender
- Spindle Carver
- Splicer Operator
- Splitter Tender
- Splitting Machine Operator
- Splitting Machine Tender
- Squeezer
- Squeezer Operator
- Stacker Tender
- Stapler
- Stapling Machine Operator
- Stave Jointer
- Stave Machine Tender
- Steam Box Operator
- Stemhole Borer
- Stock Checkerer
- Stroke Belt Sander Operator
- Swing Type Lathe Operator
- Tenon Operator
- Tenoner Operator
- Timber Sizer
- Timber Sizer Operator
- Tip Inserter
- Tongue and Groove Machine Operator
- Touch-Up Carver
- Treating Engineer
- Trimmer and Borer Machine Operator
- Trimming Machine Set-Up Operator
- Truss Builder
- Turner
- Turning Lathe Tender
- Turning Machine Set-Up Operator
- Turning Sander Operator
- Turning Sander Tender
- Turret Lathe Operator
- Turret Lathe Set Up Operator
- Veneer Clipper
- Veneer Joiner
- Veneer Jointer
- Veneer Jointer Operator
- Veneer Lathe Operator
- Veneer Press Operator
- Veneer Slicing Machine Operator
- Veneer Splicer
- Weaver
- Whiting Machine Operator
- Wire Stitcher
- Wood Borer
- Wood Boring Machine Operator
- Wood Carving Lathe Operator
- Wood Carving Machine Operator
- Wood Chopper
- Wood Coat Hanger Shaper Machine Operator
- Wood Dowel Machine Operator
- Wood Drill Operator
- Wood Drilling Machine Operator
- Wood Gouger
- Wood Handler
- Wood Heel Back Liner
- Wood Lathe Operator
- Wood Machine Carver
- Wood Miller
- Wood Milling Machine Hand
- Wood Milling Machine Operator
- Wood Milling Machine Tender
- Wood Molder
- Wood Planer
- Wood Router
- Wood Router Hand
- Wood Turner
- Wood Turning Lathe Operator
- Woodworking Belt Sander
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Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Related Schools
- Danville Community College
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