A professional who tends automatic machines that cut ornamental designs into face of nonmetallic button blanks. Responsibilities include:

• Loads blanks into machine hopper, using hand scoop.
• Starts machine and observes feeding, cutting, and indexing mechanisms.
• Removes jammed blanks from feed chute, using wire pick.
• May remove and replace worn cutters and abrasive wheels, using wrenches.
• May place blanks by hand in chucks of semiautomatic, manually indexed machine.
• May examine samples for finishing defects.