Saw Maker and Repairer

OFO Code: 652403

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code: 652403
Occupation: Saw Maker and Repairer
Classification: OFO 2021
Major group: SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
Unit group: 6524 · Metal Polishers, Wheel Grinders and Tool Sharpeners

Official description
Metal polishers, wheel grinders and tool sharpeners polish and grind metal surfaces and sharpen tools.

Trade occupation in the OFO source

More official OFO detail

Specialisations: Saw Setter, Saw Sharpener, Saw Doctor

Inspecting, feeling, and measuring work pieces to ensure that surfaces and dimensions meet specifications
Operating fixed or portable buffing and polishing machines
Selecting and mounting grinding wheels on machines, according to specifications, using hand tools and applying knowledge of abrasives and grinding procedures
Sharpening cutting tools and instruments using grinding wheels or mechanically operated grinding machines
Monitoring machine operations to determine whether adjustments are necessary; stop machines when problems occur
Repairing, adjusting and sharpening saw blades and metal teeth of cylinders in textile carding machines
Dressing grinding wheels, according to specifications

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.

A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.

No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.

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Qualification evidence pending.

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National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.

No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.

DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact.
DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment.
Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone.
QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review.
Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim.
SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.