Job Family: 51-0000 Production
Occupational Group: 51-7010 Production
OCCUPATION PROFILE
JOB FAMILY: PRODUCTION
OCCUPATIONAL GROUP: PRODUCTION
OCCUPATION: CABINETMAKERS AND BENCH CARPENTERS
51-7011
BROADBAND LEVELS: Level 2 – Pay Band 004
DESCRIPTION
This is work cutting, shaping, and assembling wooden articles or setting up and operating a variety of woodworking machines, such as power saws, jointers, and mortisers to surface, cut, or shape lumber or to fabricate parts for wood products.
EXAMPLES OF WORK
Sets up and operates machines, including power saws, jointers, mortisers, tenoners, molders, and shapers, to cut and shape woodstock.
Trims component parts of joints to ensure snug fit, using hand tools, such as planes, chisels, or wood files.
Glues, fits, and clamps parts and subassemblies together to form complete unit.
Drives nails or other fasteners to joints of articles to prepare articles for finishing.
Bores holes for insertion of screws or dowel by hand or using boring machine.
Marks dimensions of parts on paper or lumber stock, following blueprints, and matches lumber for color, grain, and texture.
Sands and scrapes surfaces and joints of articles to prepare articles for finishing.
Studies blueprints, drawings, and written specifications of articles to be constructed or repaired and plans sequence of performing such operations.
Dips, brushes, or sprays assembled articles with protective or decorative materials, such as stain, varnish, or lacquer.
Installs hardware, such as hinges, catches, and drawer pulls, using hand tools.
EXAMPLES OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS
Getting Information Needed to Do The Job / Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.Controlling Machines and Processes / Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
Handling and Moving Objects / Using one's own hands and arms in handling, installing, forming, positioning, and moving materials, or in manipulating things, including the use of keyboards.
Performing General Physical Activities / Performing physical activities that require moving one's whole body, such as in climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, where the activities often also require considerable use of the arms and legs, such as in the physical handling of materials.
Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc. / Conducting or carrying out work procedures and activities in accord with one's own ideas or information provided through directions/instructions for purposes of installing, modifying, preparing, delivering, constructing, integrating, finishing, or completing programs, systems, structures, or products.
Monitor Processes, Materials, and/or Surroundings / Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, often to detect problems or to find out when things are finished.
EXAMPLES OF KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Operation and Control / Controlling operations of equipment or systemsEquipment Selection / Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job
Installation / Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications
Product Inspection / Inspecting and evaluating the quality of products
Mathematics / Using mathematics to solve problems
Building and Construction / Knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate tools to construct objects, structures, and buildings
Engineering and Technology / Knowledge of equipment, tools, mechanical devices, and their uses to produce motion, light, power, technology, and other applications
Design / Knowledge of design techniques, principles, tools and instruments involved in the production and use of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
Production and Processing / Knowledge of inputs, outputs, raw materials, energy, waste, quality control, costs, and techniques for maximizing the efficient manufacture and distribution of goods and services
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, OR REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
EFFECTIVE: 07/01/2002
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