A professional who tends equipment that transfers rolled steel shapes, such as blooms, billets, rails, and pipe from processing lines to cooling beds. Respnsibilities include:

• Presses controls to raise roll stop, start conveyor, and position material opposite specified cooling bed.
• Pulls levers to start pusher straightedge and dog-chain (series of projections) that shoves material off conveyor line onto cooling bed.
• Moves controls of dog-chain to pull cooled material from bed onto cradle or transfer car.
• Records number and type of object cooled.
• May assist other workers in making roll and hot saw blade changes and in repairing, replacing, or adjusting mill equipment.