Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Forty-five of Sixty-six

    4600 - WOOD WORK FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations involved in the construction, alteration, repair, and maintenance of wooden buildings and other structures, and the fabrication and repair of wood products such as furniture, foundry patterns, and form blocks, using power and handtools.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Occupations in this family are:

4602 Blocking and Bracing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in blocking, bracing, staying, and securing cargo for shipment by land, sea, or air. It requires skill in constructing, placing, and installing wooden blocks, wedges, bracing structures, and other staying devices, as well as skill in securing items using wires, ropes, chains, cables, plates, and other hardware.

4604 Wood Working*

This occupation includes jobs involved in making, installing, and repairing supply, shipping, materials handling, and storage items such as boxes, crates, pallets, gates, dividers, and storage bins from wood and wood substitutes. This work requires skill in using hand and powered tools and machines to measure, cut, install, and fasten wooden parts, and knowledge and ability to follow, select, or adapt patterns, templates, and procedures to make, disassemble, install, and repair wooden items.

4605 Wood Crafting*

This occupation includes jobs involved in making and repairing high-grade wooden items such as fine cabinetry and furniture. The work involves shaping and contouring surfaces; precise, intricate joining and decorating; skilled use of the full range of woodworking tools, machines, and techniques; and application of extensive knowledge of the appearance, durability, strength, and machining characteristics of a wide range of wood and wood substitutes.

4607 Carpentry*

This occupation includes jobs involved in constructing, altering, and repairing buildings and structures, fittings, panels, partitions, and other wood or wood substitute articles.

4616 Patternmaking*

This occupation includes jobs that involve planning, laying out, and constructing patterns and core boxes used in forming molds for castings of ferrous and nonferrous metals and other substances. The patterns and core boxes are made from a variety of materials such as wood, wood products, and wood substitutes.

4639 Timber Working

This occupation includes jobs involved in constructing, installing, maintaining, and repairing piers, wharves, moorings, gangways, and similar docking facilities; fender piling around wharves and dolphin structures for offshore mooring of ships; pontoons, camels, rafts; wooden bridges and trestles; tunnel and sewer supports; and other framing or supporting structures from timbers and planking.

4654 Form Block Making

This occupation includes jobs involved in laying out and constructing solid wood and wood substitute form blocks used by sheet metal, plate metal, plastic, and fiber glass workers to produce commercial and aircraft parts. Includes laying out parts with multiple contours and irregular shapes from assembly blueprints, and studying and interpreting technical information such as loft tables, blueprints, technical orders, and microfilm.