Classification note
- Published code: 7523
- Hierarchy level: unit-group
- This page uses ISCO-08 as the English occupation reference layer while Thai TSCO label harmonization remains incomplete.
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Occupation hierarchy
- Major Group: 7 Craft and Related Trades Workers
- Sub Major Group: 75 Food Processing, Woodworking, Garment and Other Craft and Related Trades Workers
- Minor Group: 752 Wood Treaters, Cabinet-makers and Related Trades Workers
- Unit Group: 7523 Woodworking Machine Tool Setters and Operators
Child groups
- No child groups are published under this code.
TSIC codes where this occupation is primary
- No primary TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.
TSIC codes where this occupation is related
- No related TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.
Definition
Woodworking machine tool setters and operators set-up, operate and monitor automatic or semi-automatic woodworking machines, such as precision sawing, shaping, planing, boring, turning and woodcarving machines to fabricate or repair wooden parts for furniture, fixtures and other wooden products.
Tasks include
Tasks include - (a) setting-up, programming, operating and monitoring several types of woodworking machines for sawing, shaping, boring, drilling, planing, pressing, turning, sanding or carving to fabricate or repair wooden parts for furniture, fixtures and other wooden products; (b) operating preset special-purpose woodworking machines to fabricate wooden products such as coat hangers, mop handles, clothes pins and other products; (c) selecting knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits or belts according to work piece, machine functions and product specifications; (d) installing and adjusting blades, cutter heads, boring-bits and sanding-belts, and using hand tools and rules; (e) setting and adjusting various kinds of woodworking machines for operation by others; (f) reading and interpreting specifications or following verbal instructions.
Included occupations or child groups
Examples of the occupations classified here: - Carving machine operator (wood) - Furniture production machine operator - Precision woodworking sawyer - Wood products machine operator - Wood turner - Woodworking lathe operator - Woodworking machine setter - Woodworking machine setter-operator - Woodworking machine set-up operator
Excluded occupations
Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Wood and related products assemblers - 8219
ISCO-88 correspondence
- 7423