skillfactor-pipeline/skills/wood-pallet-maker/references/tasks.md

Tasks & work activities — wood pallet maker

Source: O*NET 30.3, occupation 51-7042.00 (Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing) — manual nearest-occupation mapping via ISCO group 7523; the official ESCO crosswalk has no entry for this ESCO occupation.

Task statements

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

Detailed work activities

• Clean production equipment.
• Clean work areas.
• Conduct test runs of production equipment.
• Determine production equipment settings.
• Feed materials or products into or through equipment.
• Inspect lumber or raw woodstock.
• Inspect production equipment.
• Load materials into production equipment.
• Lubricate production equipment.
• Maintain production or processing equipment.
• Maneuver workpieces in equipment during production.
• Mark products, workpieces, or equipment with identifying information.
• Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
• Monitor equipment operation to ensure that products are not flawed.
• Mount attachments or tools onto production equipment.
• Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
• Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.
• Operate woodworking equipment.
• Program equipment to perform production tasks.
• Remove accessories, tools, or other parts from equipment.
• Remove products or workpieces from production equipment.
• Replace worn equipment components.
• Select production equipment according to product specifications.
• Select production input materials.
• Set equipment controls to meet cutting specifications.
• Set equipment guides, stops, spacers, or other fixtures.
• Stack finished items for further processing or shipment.
• Trim excess material from workpieces.