Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates machine to cut, croze, slot, shape, and incise materials for prefabricated wooden tanks or pipes: Lays out materials for tank bottoms and clamps material together on platform, using screw clamps.

• 2) Bolts machine pivot to center of work material and attaches radial-arm bandsaw to pivot, using overhead hoist.

• 3) Starts saw and removes clamps and sawed pieces as saw moves around radius of tank bottom material.

• 4) Removes saw, attaches shaper to radial-arm, and bevels outside edges of material.

• 5) Saws pipe and tank stave material to specified size, using trim saw.

• 6) Operates straight or curve line crozing machine to bevel or croze end of tank staves that fit into bevel on bottom of tank.

• 7) Operates stave slotting machine to cut slots in ends of staves.

• 8) Inserts wood or metal splines in slotted ends of staves by hand.

• 9) Operates incising machine to incise straight or curved staves and tank pieces for wood preserving treatment.

• 10) Measures and cuts plates, rafters, trusses, headers, center posts and hatches for flat or conical roofs on tanks, using bandsaw, shaper, jointer, drill press, and handtools.

• 11) Constructs wooden floats and measuring boards for liquid level indicators on tanks.

• 12) May operate dowel-boring machine.

• 13) May operate radial shaping machine to form laminated rings for wooden pipe.