Profession wood boring machine operator

Wood boring machine operators use milling machines or specialise boring jigs to cut holes in wood workpieces. Wood boring differs from routing mainly in that the main movement is into the workpiece as opposed to across its surface.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Types of drill bits

  Qualities and applications of various types of drill bits, such as core drill bits, spotting drill bits, countersink drill bits and others.

• Quality standards

  The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.

• Types of boring heads

  Qualities and applications of various types of boring heads, such as rough boring heads, fine boring heads and others.

Skills

• Manipulate wood

  Manipulate the properties, shape and size of wood.

• Set up the controller of a machine

  Set up and give commands to a machine by dispatching the appropriate data and input into the (computer) controller corresponding with the desired processed product.

• Remove inadequate workpieces

  Evaluate which deficient processed workpieces do not meet the set-up standard and should be removed and sort the waste according to regulations.

• Ensure equipment availability

  Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.

• Supply machine

  Ensure the machine is fed the necessary and adequate materials and control the placement or automatic feed and retrieval of work pieces in the machines or machine tools on the production line.

• Tend boring machine

  Tend a boring machine, monitor and operate it, according to regulations.

• Troubleshoot

  Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.

• Remove processed workpiece

  Remove individual workpieces after processing, from the manufacturing machine or the machine tool. In case of a conveyor belt this involves quick, continuous movement.

• Supply machine with appropriate tools

  Supply the machine with the necessary tools and items for a particular production purpose.

• Monitor automated machines

  Continuously check up on the automated machine's set-up and execution or make regular control rounds. If necessary, record and interpret data on the operating conditions of installations and equipment in order to identify abnormalities.

• Dispose of cutting waste material

  Dispose of possibly hazardous waste material created in the cutting process, such as swarf, scrap and slugs, sort according to regulations, and clean up workplace.

• Work safely with machines

  Check and safely operate machines and equipment required for your work according to manuals and instructions.

• Ensure conformity to specifications

  Ensure that the assembled products are conform to the specifications given.

• Perform test run

  Perform tests putting a system, machine, tool or other equipment through a series of actions under actual operating conditions in order to assess its reliability and suitability to realise its tasks, and adjust settings accordingly.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB