1969-2 Graduates of this qualification will be able to:
- Apply workplace health and safety, environmental, and quality requirements to solid wood manufacturing operations.
Graduates of the Finger Jointing strand will also be able to:
- Set up, maintain and identify performance issues for basic finger jointer and saw centre operations.
- Apply knowledge of the properties and specifications of grinding wheels, fluids and grinding wheel calculations specific to finger jointing operations.
- Apply adhesives, gluing procedures, and glue testing to control automatic gluing application systems used in wood finger jointing operations.
- Operate and monitor the performance of a finger jointer and cross cut saw centre under limited supervision in a solid wood manufacturing operation.
2311-2 Graduates of this qualification will be able to:
- Grind and maintain a finger jointing cutterhead.
- Interpret and apply specifications and knowledge of the technical aspects of tooling and machinery to operate a finger jointing machine.
- Inspect and maintain a finger jointing machine.
- Set up an edge-to-edge or face-to-face finger jointing machine.
- Coordinate in-feed, out-feed, production volume and shook quality for a finger jointing operation.
- Diagnose product and joint defects and implement corrective actions to meet production and quality requirements of a finger jointing operation.
- Control glue systems for wood product manufacturing.
