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DOT Code: 665.682-030

Industry: woodworking
Alternate Titles: routing-machine operator

Sets up and operates single- or multiple-spindle routing machine to cut slots, grooves, designs, or recesses in woodstock: Studies blueprints, drawings, or samples and written specifications to ascertain size, depth, and location of cuts to be made. Selects and installs router bits in spindle chucks according to specifications, using chuck key. Spaces spindles on shaft at specified intervals, using wrenches, and turns handwheels or sets stops to regulate depth of cut. Clamps stock to jig, inserts pin in guidehole of machine table, and places jig over guide pin, or clamps part to movable table of machine. Starts machine and presses pedal to raise table and feed stock into rotating bits. Moves stock under bits, following guides, lines, or slots in jig, to cut specified slots, designs, grooves, or recesses in stock. Measures dimensions of processed woodstock to verify conformance to specifications, using ruler, gauges, or calipers. May be designated according to machine operated as Multiple-Spindle-Router Operator (woodworking); or according to cut made as Handhole-Machine Operator (wood. container).

GOE: 06.02.03 STRENGTH: M GED: R3 M2 L2 SVP: 4 DLU: 79