Woodworking machine tool setters and operators set-up or operate and monitor automatic or semi-automatic woodworking machines, such as precision sawing, shaping, planning, boring, turning and woodcarving machines to fabricate or repair wooden parts for furniture, fixtures and other wooden products.
Skill level:
Semi-skilled
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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Woodworking-machine tool setters and operators - from Ksh36,622 to Ksh113,952 per month - 2025.
- A Woodworking-machine tool setters and operators typically earns between Ksh36,622 and Ksh75,937 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between Ksh43,492 and Ksh96,748 per month for a working week of 45 hours.
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Job Responsibilities
- 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
- Operating preset special-purpose woodworking machines to fabricate wooden products such as coat hangers, mop handles, clothes pins and other products
- Selecting knives, saws, blades, cutterheads, cams, bits or belts according to workpiece, machine functions and product specifications
- Installing and adjusting blades, cutter heads, boring-bits and sanding-belts, and using hand tools and rules
- Setting and adjusting various kinds of woodworking machines for operation by others
- Reading and interpreting specifications or following verbal instructions
