A professional who tends machine that shaves shank, heel seat, forepart, or edges of shoe outsole to reduce thickness and increase flexibility of outsole by any of following methods. Responsibilities include:

• (1) Feeds edge of outsole against guide and between rollers that force edge against machine blade.
• Turns crank to regulate speed of rollers along curved edges.
• May depress pedal to separate rollers to accommodate thickness of outsole.
• (2) Positions specified die rollers on machine shaft.
• Positions outsoles against guides on machine bed.
• Depresses pedal that starts rollers that force shank, heel seat, forepart, or edges of outsole against machine blade.
• Turns handwheel to set cutting gauge according to outsole size.
• May reduce thickness of insoles at edges.
• May be designated according to part of outsole reduced or beveled as heel reducer; shank beveler.