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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.5 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products S8.5.8 - operating cutting, grinding and smoothing machinery Operate router machinery
Description
Operate machines and equipment used for cutting various hard materials, such as wood, composites, aluminium, steel, plastics and foams.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 1 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Router operatorRouter operators set up and operate multi-spindle routing machines, in order to hollow-out or cut various hard materials such as wood, composites, aluminium, steel, plastics; and o…
Related skills
- Functionalities of machinery
- Manipulate plastic
- Use CAD software
- Ensure public safety and security
- Record production data for quality control
- Program a CNC controller
- Dispose of cutting waste material
- Troubleshoot
- Repair router machinery
- Read standard blueprints
- Weigh materials
- Types of wood
- Monitor automated machines
Last updated on February 18, 2026
