Job Description:

• 1) Operates conveyor system in sawmill to route lumber, cants, and timber to processing operations according to size, grade, and specie, or type of processing required: Raises and lowers cross chains by moving levers and pedals to shift boards, timbers, or cants from one set of conveyor rolls to another or from rolls to platform.

• 2) Raises stop blocks to stop lumber at specified points along rolls.

• 3) Stops and reverses conveyors to re-route cants for further processing.

• 4) May operate electric hoist to move cants to stockpile.

• 5) May operate cut-off saw to cut cants to specified lengths.