Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan timber production from flitches and cants
- Review workplace health and safety requirements, environmental protection practices and emergency procedures according to operational requirements
- Identify and control hazards and use personal protective equipment according to workplace requirements and health and safety legislation to maintain safe work practices
- Assess flitches and cants for types of timber that can be cut and determine the optimal cutting pattern
- Plan and document cutting patterns to maximise output and minimise wastage
- Develop timber cutting schedules and work orders and brief sawing operators according to workplace procedures
- Identify variations in timber characteristics and report to sawing operators
- Coordinate sawing operations for timber production
- Assist sawing operators to evaluate flitches and cants and sawing problems
- Monitor and assess timber cutting processes for the quality of cutting pattern, suitability to flitch or cant condition and ability to maintain production schedule
- Modify cutting patterns and production schedule as required to ensure optimum performance, and communicate to sawing operators
- Assist sawing operators to reject sub-standard flitches and cants and ensure they are disposed of according to environmental protection practices
- Ensure processed timber is directed to a designated area for storage or further processing
- Complete and maintain records of cutting output according to workplace procedures
- Investigate, record and report major processing and equipment faults and resolve or report to appropriate personnel
- Evaluate and determine process improvement