A professional who tends machine that button-tufts mattresses. Responsibilities include:

• Adjusts needle stroke and button tying mechanism to thickness of mattress.
• Fills machine hopper with tufting buttons.
• Places mattress on movable table of machine and turns wheel to adjust distance between mattress and machine head.
• Presses button to start machine and moves table laterally, forward, and backward to space tufts as machine head inserts tufts into both sides.
• May tend machine that automatically moves table and tufts mattress, or semiautomatic machine that requires lever operation for each stroke.
• May tend machine that tufts with knots.
• May tuft by hand.