Job Description:

• 1) 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.

• 2) Holds woodstock against guides and presses button to lower rotating bits that bore holes into woodstock.

• 3) Removes stock from machine and examines workpiece for boring defects, such as splits.

• 4) May place woodstock in hopper that automatically feeds piece under bits of machine.

• 5) May cut defects from sections of woodstock prior to boring, using cut-off saw.