4.1 This award covers employers throughout Australia in the industry sectors described in clause 4.2 and to the work and person performing such work as listed in the skill grade structures. As described in clause 3 - Definition and interpretation. Without limiting the scope of this award it applies to the following types of work in the forest an building products, manufacturing and merchandising, and pulp and paper sectors and person performing such work or employed in connection with the following work.
4.2 The following activities are arranged in industry sectors for ease of use. In reality each sector may overlap and include any or all activities from other sectors.
(b) Milling and processing sector
i) Processing of logs and other forms of raw timber into building timber and other value-added products in timber mills, factories, merchant's premises and other locations.
ii) Processing includes lifting, sorting, stacking, storing, warehousing, transporting, debarking, sawing, dressing, drying, machining, laminating, jointing, chipping, treating and carrying out any grading, labelling and clerical functions associated with processing.
iii) Operation of any machinery used in processing or in connection with processing including plant and infrastructure and any maintenance associated with such machinery, plant or infrastructure.
iv) Assembling and construction of products from processed timber.
v) Supervision, co-ordination and planning of the processing activities and processing infrastructure.
(c) Panel products sector
i) Manufacturing of boards, panels or veneer from timber and timber products.
ii) Handling, sorting, stacking, lifting, treating, cutting, pressing, gluing, edging, trimming, painting, laminating and processing in any manner, board, panel or veneer.
iii) Transporting and storing board, panels or veneer.
iv) Operating and maintaining any or all machinery associated with board, panel or veneer manufacture including manufacturing plant and infrastructure.
v) Planning, setting-up and assembling products from board, panel or veneer and associated components.
(d) Manufacturing sector
i) All activities listed in the milling and processing sector in clause 4.2(b);
ii) Machining timber in any manner to produce components and articles;
iii) Planning, setting-up and assembling wood components and associated attachments into products;
iv) Painting and glazing products;
v) Manufacturing frames, trusses, doors, windows and other building products or components from wood or timber;
vi) Measuring, estimating, designing and manufacturing products for building and other purposes;
vii) Manufacturing wooden sporting goods including for cricket, hockey, lacrosse, polocrosse, billiards, badminton.
viii) Cabinet making, wood machining, wood turning, wood carving, finishing, polishing, upholstering and other work carried out in or in connection with preparing, packing, assembling, manufacturing, repairing or fixing, whether new or second hand, any article of furniture including inbuilt and caravan furniture, chairs and seating, picture frames, musical instruments and toys, where any of the foregoing are made of wood or timber, manufactured wood or timber products; and any other product made from wood.
(e) Merchandising and retailing sector
i) All activities listed in the manufacturing sector in clause 4.2(d).
ii) Displaying, demonstrating, preparing, handling, providing advice and selling timber and timber related products, hardware and building products in wholesale and timber merchant/retail outlets.
iii) Activities associated with the importing and wholesaling of timber products.
iv) Calculating and processing customer orders and dealing with customers generally.
3. Definitions and interpretation
engine driver means any person who operates or drives any engine or engines, the motive power of which is either steam, gas, oil, water, compressed air or electricity, and includes any person who is called upon in the ordinary course of their duty to do engine driver's work other than simply stopping or starting an engine under the supervision of an engine driver
estimator means an employee who has served an apprenticeship to any of the building trades or as a draughtsperson who is engaged in preparing cutting lists of timber for use in the manufacture of building components from builders, architects, or other plans
glazier - first class means an employee who is called upon to cut plate, sheet, figured, rolled and other flat glass, also structural glass, and to glaze and fit into wood and/or steel and/or metal and to fix structural glass
greaser or oiler means any person substantially engaged in greasing or oiling any engine, machinery or shafting
greaser or oiler - first class means a greaser or oiler who under the supervision of an engine driver stops or starts any engine or engines, but does not include any greaser or oiler who does so only in cases of necessity or emergency
inspector (Timber tradesperson - Level 6 or above) means a tradesperson who is engaged to inspect components or finished products whilst in production or upon completion as to their conformity with a specific standard of quality and accuracy and who is authorised to exercise and does exercise discretion to pass components which may not conform to that standard
leading hand means an employee who, while working, has charge or control of any adult person or persons not apprentices and who has been appointed by the employer to take such charge or control. This definition does not apply to engine drivers, firemen or greasers
machinist A grade (Timber tradesperson - Level 5) means a tradesperson wood machinist who has served the prescribed apprenticeship to wood machining as set out in this or previous awards, or an adult by reason of training for four years or more and experience is, at the time of engagement or subsequent thereto, deemed by the employer to be capable and is willing to perform the work of a tradesperson wood machinist. Work which will include the work of operating and setting up and/or grinding the knives and cutters of any of the following machines upon which the employee is employed notwithstanding that the employee may not be called upon to perform all such work:
a) automatic profile sander;
b) shaper who works freehand or automatic shaper (other than grooving and/or slotting in box and casemaking);
c) boult's carver
d) buzzer and/or jointer (using other than straight knives and cutters);
e) crossgrainer;
f) cabinetmaker;
g) chair frame maker;
h) computerised automatic two dimensional dividing and squaring saw;
i) double edgebander and/or double ended tenoner;
j) edgebander;
k) dowel machine (multiple type);
l) drum sander (four or more drums);
m) general joiner;
n) lindemann gluer and jointer;
o) longitudinal grooving machine;
p) lock angle machine;
q) mosaic flooring machine (other than assembling machine);
r) moulder;
s) multi-headed boring machine, with three or more bits;
t) panel line machine;
u) planer - three heads or more (other than box);
v) planer, box (four heads or more);
w) polisher including a person who is responsible for the setting up and operation of a curtain coating machine;
x) sets up and operates any programmed and/or computerised high output wood machine not mentioned herein;
y) responsible person in charge of radio frequency gluing equipment and radio frequency gluing operations;
z) router, working freehand;
aa) shaper (other than grooving and/or slotting in box and casemaking);
bb) spoke throater;
cc) tenoner (using scribing irons, other than an automatic tenoner);
dd) upholster who is capable of and does spring canvas, first and second stuff cover finish;
ee) trusser or crozier;
ff) variety turning on lathes other than automatic lathes;
gg) v-grooving machine;
hh) v-line folding machine;
ii) vinyl or melamine laying machine;
jj) wood chipper;
kk) wood carver; and
ll) wood turner who grinds cutters and/or sets up and operates or who works freehand and a turner who sets up and operates a copying or automatic lathe
An employee operating any of the following machines: automatic shaper, boult's carver, buzzer and/or jointer; general joiner; lindemann gluer and jointer; and a router will be a machinist A grade notwithstanding such employee does not set up and/or grind the knives and cutters.
machinist B grade means an adult employee other than a tradesperson, operating and setting up and/or grinding the knives or cutters of any of the following machines:
a) automatic lathe;
b) band and/or jig saw (other than sawmilling);
c) belt sander and bobbin sander;
d) belt sander on veneers;
e) borer (three or more spindles);
f) buzzer and/or jointer (using straight knives or cutters);
g) circular saw;
h) copying lathe;
i) dovetailer;
j) dowel machine (single type);
k) drum sander (double or triple drums);
l) end matcher, finger jointer and all other male and female profile machines;
m) glue jointer and/or automatic dowel driving machine;
n) mechanical cutting veneer guillotine and veneer press;
o) microplaner;
p) morticer (chain or hollow chisel of any kind or any other);
q) panel line machine;
r) planer (one or two heads) other than box;
s) planer, box (less than four heads);
t) pole scarfing (including operator of such machine who also operates a pole boring or pole capping machine);
u) radial head using saws or cutters in the making of component parts for pre-cut buildings or of roof trusses or any form of trusses;
v) relisher;
w) router (working from templates, dies, jigs or fences);
x) sets up and operates a tenoner, other than double ended tenoner;
y) shaper (grooving and/or slotting in box and case making);
z) slicer (box);
aa) spiking machine (incisor);
bb) thicknesser;
cc) timber bending machine;
dd) v-grooving machine;
ee) v-line folding machine;
ff) vinyl or melamine laying machine;
gg) wood chipping machine (other than log chipper); and
hh) wood wool machine.
measurer means an employee who measures and records dimensions and number of pieces of sawn timber
millwright - mechanical tradesperson - special class means an employee who installs, repairs and maintains complex machinery and equipment including machinery which utilises hydraulic or pneumatic principles and who in the course of such work is required to read and understand hydraulic and pneumatic circuitry which controls fluid power systems; who has completed appropriate training as described in the classification descriptions of this award
on-hire means the on-hire of an employee by their employer to a client, where such employee works under the general guidance and instruction of the client or a representative of the client
sawbenches classifications:
(a) breaking down bench includes a circular saw, a band saw, twin saws, horizontal saw or vertical frame saw when any such saws is used for the purposes of reducing a log to flitches;
(b) no. 1 bench means any bench which takes flitches from the breaking down bench;
(c) no. 2 bench means any bench which is fed directly from a no. 1 bench or an edge saw bench, and which is not being used as a picket bench within no. 4 bench;
(d) no. 3 bench means any bench which is fed directly from a no. 2 bench and which is not being used as a picket bench within no. 4 bench; and
(e) no. 4 bench means a bench on which timber is cut into pickets, lathes, droppers, palings, staves or other small sizes which do not exceed 7.6 cm by 3.8 cm by 2.7 metres or the equivalent in section by 2.7 metres.
saw doctor means an employee who may be required to manufacture from blank ribbon steel band saws of varying widths and who punches teeth, grinds teeth, swages and sets, hard tips teeth, tensions and levels circular saws, grinds, sharpens and sets circular saws, maintains chainsaws chains, hand saws and frame saws and who when required, is responsible for the training of other employees
saw sharpener means an employee who sharpens, sets and tensions saws only, using either hand or automatic grinding equipment, file setting level and setting gauge saw sharpener