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“Profile Shaper Operator” 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 “Profile Shaper Operator”

Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.
Set up, program, or control computer-aided design (CAD) or computer numerical control (CNC) machines.
Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.
Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
Sharpen knives, bits, or other cutting or shaping tools.
Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
Operate gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces.
Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times.
Determine product specifications and materials, work methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or work orders.
Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
Grease or oil woodworking machines.
Unclamp workpieces and remove them from machines.
Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.
Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, or fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely.
Control hoists to remove parts or products from work stations.
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 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.
Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.
Clean or maintain products, machines, or work areas.
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.
Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.
Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders.
Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.
Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, or shaping tools.

Related Technology & Tools

Drill presses
Boring bars
Claw hammers
Biscuit jointers
Wood files
Vernier calipers
Computerized numerical control CNC boring machines
Height gauges
Wide belt sanders
Combination squares
Turning lathes
Boring machines
Case clamps
Protractors
Holding clamps
Profile grinders
Conveyor feeders
Dividers
Screw pocket machines
Edge sanders
Pneumatic sanding machines
Handsaws
Random orbital sanders
Power sanders
Computer terminals
Safety gloves
Planers
Hydraulic hot presses
Lathes
Shapers
Hand lathes
Holding jigs
Protective ear muffs
Safety glasses
Automatic panel saws
Spray guns
Double end tenoners
Dial calipers
Tenoners
Shaping machines
Grease guns
Layout templates
Bench grinders
Desktop computers
Machining centers
Woodworking chisels
Precision rulers
Digital calipers
Power routers
Spindle shapers
Adjustable hand wrenches
Nailing machines
Line boring machines
Planing machines
Paint application brushes

Inventory control software
Microsoft Excel
Timekeeping software
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Word
Computerized numerical control CNC software