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Boring-Machine Operator

DOT Code: 666.685-014

Industry: furniture

Tends single- or multiple-spindle boring machine that bores holes in wooden furniture stock: Lifts and places woodstock against preset guides of machine bed and presses button to start rotating boring bits of previously set up machine. Holds woodstock against guides and presses button to lower rotating bits that bore holes into woodstock. Removes stock from machine and examines workpiece for boring defects, such as splits. May place woodstock in hopper that automatically feeds piece under bits of machine. May cut defects from sections of woodstock prior to boring, using cut-off saw.

GOE: 06.04.03 STRENGTH: M GED: R2 M2 L2 SVP: 2 DLU: 86