List of Career Duties Under Sawmill And Planing Mill Business Sector

Supervisor Sawmill Career Duties

• Supervise coordinates activities of workers engaged in shaping logs or wood to form rough lumber, shingles, cooperage stock, lathes, and veneer stock
• Read work orders to define type product to be produced production schedule
• Instruct workers on machine setup to meet production requirements
• Inspect material during and after processing to define that dimensions grade meet specifications
• Direct workers to adjust machine setup or processing procedure to correct defects
• Perform duties as described under Supervisor any industry Master Title
• May inspect, grade, scale, and tally incoming lumber verify invoices
• May compute wood requirements needed to meet production demands
• May supervise coordinate activities of workers engaged in removing bark from logs prior to processing.

Supervisor Wood crew Career Duties

• Supervise coordinates activities of workers engaged in culling, cutting, and loading wood on cars or trucks to be sold for fuel or used at sawmill
• Perform duties as described under Supervisor any industry Master Title.

Tie Inspector Career Duties

• Inspect railroad ties for defects checks measurement of ties, using tape measure
• Examine tie for defects, like knots, square or round ends, or rot
• Measure width of tie, using tape measure
• Classify tie according to width kind of wood.

Timber sizer Operator Career Duties

• Operate planing machine to surface planks and timbers reduce stock to specified dimensions
• Install cutting heads on machine drive spindles and adjusts blade exposure according to specified depth of cut, using wrenches gauges
• Adjust feed roll tension positions fences that guide stock between cutterheads
• Start machine, exhaust blower, and conveyors, and slides timber against guide to align timber on feed rolls
• Verify dimensions of sized stock, using gauge or rule.

Tipple Operator Career Duties

• Operate tipple chain conveyor to move presorted lumber from holding racks to stacking platform
• Move control buttons to align tipple with holding racks which hold lumber requested
• Pull levers to release stops at ends of holding racks, allowing lumber to move down to tipple conveyor chain which transfers lumber to stacking platform
• Straighten lumber as it moves on conveyor to prevent jams.

Transfer Controller Career Duties

• Operate conveyor system in sawmill to route lumber, cants, and timber to processing operations according to size, grade, and specie, or type of processing required
• Raise and lowers cross chains by moving levers pedals to shift boards, timbers, or cants from one set of conveyor rolls to another or from rolls to platform
• Raise stop blocks to stop lumber at specified points along rolls
• Stop reverses conveyors to re-route cants for further processing
• May operate electric hoist to move cants to stockpile
• May operate cut-off saw to cut cants to specified lengths.

Trim Sawyer Career Duties

• Operate saws to cut lumber according to customers order or plant production specifications
• Select lumber of kind grade specified on work order
• Measure & marks lumber according to specifications, using rule square
• Cuts lumber to specified length width, using crosscut saws [Cut-Off-Saw Operator woodworking I], ripsaws [Ripsaw Operator woodworking ], or multiple-purpose saws [Variety-Saw Operator woodworking ].

Utility Operator Career Duties

• Operate and controls barkers, saws, edgers, planers, trimmers, and chippers in sawmill to relieve other operators during rest meal periods, emergencies, and vacations
• Receive assignment to operate specific machine from Supervisor, Sawmill saw. plan. 669.130-026
• Move levers, turns handwheels, depresses pedals and pushes console buttons to activate machines & to observe, rotate and move logs and boards on conveyors adjustable tables to shape boards for optimum market value
• Change cutting blades, adjusts machines, and clears machine jams, using handtools
• Lubricate cleans machine parts.