A professional who sets up and operates boring-and-filling machine to fabricate brushes. Responsibilities include:

• Installs specified ratchet wheel, cams, stapling head, and drill in machine, using handtools.
• Mounts roll of wire on spindle and threads wire through stapling mechanism.
• Fills magazine with material, such as horsehair, nylon, wire, plastic filaments, or vegetable fibers, according to type of brush being made.
• Positions and clamps wooden or composition brush base in jig under drill, and clamps predrilled base in jig under filling-and-stapling device.
• Starts machine which simultaneously drills holes in blank base, and inserts and staples brush material in holes of drilled base.
• Places finished brush on storage rack.
• May be designated according to type of brush filled as hair-brush-boring-and-filling-machine operator; tooth-brush-boring-and-filling-machine operator; wire-brush-boring-and-filling-machine operator.