A professional who sets up machines to measure and weigh loaded cartridges. Responsibilities include:

• Turns setscrews and nuts to adjust and synchronize feeding, gauging, weighing, and ejection mechanisms, using handtools, and master cartridge and fixed gauges to verify settings.
• Starts machine and inspects sample cartridges for conformance to weight and size specifications.
• Disassembles machine to replace worn or broken parts or to install parts to accommodate specific size or type of cartridge, using handtools.
• Tags trays of rejected cartridges, indicating reason for rejection, and routes them to other workers for reinspection or salvage.
• Cleans and lubricates equipment.
• Gives instructions to new workers for operating machine.