该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

木材分级机

• 目视检查木材是否有节、孔、裂缝和其他缺陷，并进行分类以进一步干燥、修整或再制造
• 使用卡尺、量规和卷尺测量木材，以确保指定的厚度、长度和宽度
• 根据行业标准对木材进行分类和分类，并在木材上盖章以表明等级、木材类型、水分含量和其他特征
• 理货木材
• 完成并维护报告。

其他木材加工检验员和分级员

• 目视检查胶合板、单板、镶板、木瓦和类似木制品是否有节、孔、裂缝、平直度和其他缺陷
• 标记缺陷并进行分类以进行维修或再加工
• 使用标准测量仪器测量木制品以确保符合规格
• 根据质量标准对木制品进行分级和贴标签
• 完成并维护检查和分级报告。

• 通常需要完成中学学业。
• 为木材分级员提供在职培训和长达两周的课堂培训。
• 本单元组的分级员和检验员通常需要有锯木厂机器操作员、其他木材加工操作员或木材加工工人的经验。
• 木材分级师需要获得省级木材协会颁发的木材分级师执照。

• 加工类似木制品的雇主之间存在一定的流动性。

• 林产品技术员（22100化学工艺师和技术员）
• 伐木机（22112林业技术员）
• 生产技术员 - 锯木厂（在22302 工业工程和制造技术员和技术员中）
• 主管，林产品加工（92014）

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

Lumber graders

• Examine lumber visually for knots, holes, splits and other defects and sort for further drying, trimming or remanufacturing
• Measure lumber using callipers, gauges and tape measures to ensure specified thickness, length and width
• Classify and sort lumber according to industry standards and stamp lumber to indicate grade, wood type, moisture level and other characteristics
• Tally lumber
• Complete and maintain reports.

Other wood processing inspectors and graders

• Inspect plywood panels, veneer sheets, panelboards, shingles and similar wood products visually for knots, holes, splits, straightness and other defects
• Mark defects and sort for repair or reprocessing
• Measure wood products to ensure conformance to specifications using standard measuring instruments
• Grade and label wood products according to quality standards
• Complete and maintain inspection and grading reports.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• On-the-job training and up to two weeks of classroom training are provided for lumber graders.
• Previous experience as a sawmill machine operator, other wood processing operator or as a labourer in wood processing is usually required for graders and inspectors in this unit group.
• Lumber graders require a lumber grader's licence issued by a provincial lumber association.

• There is some mobility between employers processing similar wood products.

• Forest products technologist (in 22100 Chemical technologists and technicians)
• Log scaler (in 22112 Forestry technologists and technicians)
• Production technologist - sawmill (in 22302 Industrial engineering and manufacturing technologists and technicians)
• Supervisors, forest products processing (92014)