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Woodworking-machine tool setters and operators
Salary range for the majority of workers in the selected occupation - from GH₵5.08 to GH₵19.05 per hour - 2019.
Woodworking machine tool setters and operators set-up or operate and monitor automatic or semi-automatic woodworking machines, such as precision sawing, shaping, planning, boring, turning and woodcarving machines to fabricate or repair wooden parts for furniture, fixtures and other wooden products.
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Tasks and duties
- Setting-up, programming, operating and monitoring several types of woodworking machines for sawing, shaping, boring, drilling, planing, pressing, turning, sanding or carving to fabricate or repair wooden parts for furniture, fixtures and other wooden products
- Reading and interpreting specifications or following verbal instructions
- Installing and adjusting blades, cutter heads, boring-bits and sanding-belts, and using hand tools and rules
- Operating preset special-purpose woodworking machines to fabricate wooden products such as coat hangers, mop handles, clothes pins and other products
- Selecting knives, saws, blades, cutterheads, cams, bits or belts according to workpiece, machine functions and product specifications
- Setting and adjusting various kinds of woodworking machines for operation by others