Woodworkers, All Other

Career Description: All woodworkers not listed separately.

Industry: Production

Other Job Titles for Woodworkers, All Other:

• Realistic: Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
• Investigative: Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
• Artistic: Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
• Social: Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
• Enterprising: Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
• Conventional: Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
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• Turn and press knobs and buttons or enter operating instructions into computers to adjust and start welding machines.
• Set up, operate, and tend welding machines that join or bond components to fabricate metal products or assemblies.
• Load or feed workpieces into welding machines to join or bond components.
• Give directions to other workers regarding machine set-up and use.
• Correct problems by adjusting controls or by stopping machines and opening holding devices.
• Inspect, measure, or test completed metal workpieces to ensure conformance to specifications, using measuring and testing devices.
• Record operational information on specified production reports.
• Start, monitor, and adjust robotic welding production lines.
• Read blueprints, work orders, and production schedules to determine product or job instructions and specifications.
• Assemble, align, and clamp workpieces into holding fixtures to bond, heat-treat, or solder fabricated metal components.
• Lay out, fit, or connect parts to be bonded, calculating production measurements as necessary.
• Conduct trial runs before welding, soldering or brazing and make necessary adjustments to equipment.
• Dress electrodes, using tip dressers, files, emery cloths, or dressing wheels.
• Remove completed workpieces and parts from machinery, using hand tools.
• Observe meters, gauges, and machine operations to ensure that soldering or brazing processes meet specifications.
• Select, position, align, and bolt jigs, holding fixtures, guides, and stops onto machines, using measuring instruments and hand tools.
• Select torch tips, alloys, flux, coil, tubing, and wire, according to metal types and thicknesses, data charts, and records.
• Compute and record settings for new work, applying knowledge of metal properties, principles of welding, and shop mathematics.
• Prepare metal surfaces and workpieces, using hand-operated equipment such as grinders, cutters, or drills.
• Clean, lubricate, maintain, and adjust equipment to maintain efficient operation, using air hoses, cleaning fluids, and hand tools.
• Set dials and timing controls to regulate electrical current, gas flow pressure, heating or cooling cycles, and shut-off.
• Tend auxiliary equipment used in welding processes.
• Devise and build fixtures and jigs used to hold parts in place during welding, brazing, or soldering.
• Fill hoppers and position spouts to direct flow of flux, or manually brush flux onto seams of workpieces.
• Transfer components, metal products, and assemblies, using moving equipment.
• Add chemicals and materials to workpieces or machines to facilitate bonding or to cool workpieces.
• Mark weld points and positions of components on workpieces, using rules, squares, templates, and scribes.
• Anneal finished workpieces to relieve internal stress.
• Immerse completed workpieces into water or acid baths to cool and clean components.
• Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
• Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.
• Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
• Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.
• Melt lead bars, wire, or scrap to add lead to joints or to extrude melted scrap into reusable form.
• Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.
• Join parts such as beams and steel reinforcing rods in buildings, bridges, and highways, bolting and riveting as necessary.
• Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces.
• Mix and apply protective coatings to products.
• Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears.
• Operate brazing and soldering equipment.

Emerging Tasks

• Clean and maintain tanks, filter beds, and other work areas using hand tools and power tools.
• Maintain production equipment and machinery.
• Operate machinery and heavy equipment such as forklifts.
• Package finished products and prepare them for shipment.
• Perform quality checks on products and parts.
• Review work orders and blueprints to ensure work is performed according to specifications.
• Shovel, sweep, or otherwise clean work areas.
• Supervise assemblers and train employees on job procedures.

• Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Communicating with Persons Outside Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
• Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
• Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
• Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• Interacting With Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
• Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
• Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
• Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Performing General Physical Activities: Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
• Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• Provide Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
• Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment: Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
• Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment: Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
• Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
• Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
• Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
• Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
• Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
• Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.

Detailed Work Activities

• adjust production equipment/machinery setup
• braze metal parts or components together
• clean equipment or machinery
• clean or degrease weld, or parts to be welded or soldered
• demonstrate or explain assembly or use of equipment
• examine products or work to verify conformance to specifications
• fabricate, assemble, or disassemble manufactured products by hand
• install equipment or attachments on machinery or related structures
• lay out machining, welding or precision assembly projects
• load or unload material or workpiece into machinery
• maintain production or work records
• monitor production machinery/equipment operation to detect problems
• move or fit heavy objects
• operate hoist, winch, or hydraulic boom
• operate metal or plastic fabricating equipment/machinery
• perform safety inspections in manufacturing or industrial setting
• position, clamp or assemble workpiece prior to welding
• preheat metal before welding, brazing, or soldering
• read blueprints
• read production layouts
• read specifications
• read technical drawings
• read work order, instructions, formulas, or processing charts
• recognize characteristics of metals
• set up computer numerical control machines
• set up production equipment or machinery
• solder metal parts or components together
• test manufactured products or materials
• understand technical operating, service or repair manuals
• use acetylene welding/cutting torch
• use hand or power tools
• use non-destructive test equipment
• use precision measuring tools or equipment
• use spot or tack welding techniques
• weld together metal parts, components, or structures
• perform safety inspections in industrial, manufacturing or repair setting
• perform welding techniques over lengthy time span
• plan or organize work
• position, clamp or assemble workpiece prior to welding
• preheat metal before welding, brazing, or soldering
• read blueprints
• read production layouts
• read specifications
• read technical drawings
• read work order, instructions, formulas, or processing charts
• recognize characteristics of alloys
• recognize characteristics of metals
• recognize welding symbols
• requisition stock, materials, supplies or equipment
• setup welding equipment
• sharpen metal objects
• signal directions or warnings to coworkers
• solder metal parts or components together
• understand technical operating, service or repair manuals
• use acetylene welding/cutting torch
• use arc welding equipment
• use braze-welding equipment
• use combination welding procedures
• use fire suppression equipment
• use gas welding equipment
• use hand or power tools
• use knowledge of welding filler rod types
• use non-destructive test equipment
• use precision measuring tools or equipment
• use soldering equipment
• use spot or tack welding techniques
• use thermal-cutting equipment
• weld in flat, horizontal, vertical, or overhead position
• weld together metal parts, components, or structures
• use x-ray or magnetic inspection techniques

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• Average hourly wage (2007) -$11.25
• Average annual wage (2007) - $23,400.00

• Projected growth (2006-2016): 1.63%
• Projected need (2006-2016): 333
• Employment (2006): 20,486

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