Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates single- or multiple-blade machine to cut grooves, notches, recesses, rabbets, lap joints, and tenons in wooden parts: Examines drawings, blueprints, or samples and written specifications and selects and installs saws, dado heads, and spacers, using rule and wrenches.

• 2) Turns handwheels to move guide fence and adjust table height to attain specified location and depth of cut.

• 3) Starts machine and pushes wooden parts past cutting heads by hand, or inserts parts between feed rolls that carry parts through machine.

• 4) May be designated according to type of saws used as Warble-Saw Operator; or according to part and cut made as Cleat Notcher; Partition Notcher; Strap Recesser.