A professional who tends machines that cut heel blanks (rough forms) of wood, leather, or fiberboard into heels. Responsibilities include:

• Inserts blank in holding device.
• Pushes heel against revolving knife blades to shape outside of heel.
• Positions shaped heel in holding device of second machine that hollows out face of heel.
• May sharpen and insert cutting blades in machines.
• May be designated according to material grooved or turned as wooden-heel beveler.