A professional who tends machine that places pencil leads in grooves of wooden slats and cements slats together to form pencil blanks. Responsibilities include:

• Places pencil leads and wooden slats in feed hoppers of machine.
• Fills reservoirs of machine with cement.
• Starts machine that automatically applies cement to grooved surface of slats, places lead in grooves and joins cemented slats to form blank.
• Stops machine and removes jammed slats or leads.