A professional who operates equipment to wind steel strip into coils as strip emerges from rolling mill or continuous annealing, pickling, or tempering lines. Respnsibilities include:

• Moves controls to synchronize coiling machine speed and action of machine guides, gates, and rolls with feed tables and conveyors.
• Examines strip surface for scale, weld defects, and specified oil coating.
• Verifies specified width and gauge of strip, using measuring tape and micrometer.
• Cuts strip into specified lengths, cuts defects from strip, and cuts excess metal from welds, using power shear and weld notcher.
• Moves controls to transfer coils onto conveyor for automatic bundling and piling.
• May assist mill crew in making roll changes and in adjusting or replacing equipment on rolling line, using handtools.