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97% Chance of Automation

“Hooper” will almost certainly be replaced by robots.

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Job Description

Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate CNC equipment.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-7042.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 29,850.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 76,130 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing”.

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Tasks for “Hooper”

Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.
Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.
Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders.
Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.
Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.
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.
Clean or maintain products, machines, or work areas.
Control hoists to remove parts or products from work stations.
Grease or oil woodworking machines.
Operate gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces.
Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
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.
Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, or fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely.
Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.
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.
Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, or shaping tools.
Set up, program, or control computer-aided design (CAD) or computer numerical control (CNC) machines.
Unclamp workpieces and remove them from machines.
Sharpen knives, bits, or other cutting 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.
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.
Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times.

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Safety gloves
Adjustable hand wrenches
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Tenoners
Combination squares
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Computer terminals
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Paint application brushes
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