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

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Skill level

Semi-skilled