A professional who tends skiving machine that bevels edges of shoe parts to prevent ridges at stitched, cemented, or folded edges. Responsibilities include:

• Depresses pedal to start machine.
• Holds and guides part against guide and between feed rollers that force edges of part against blade.
• Turns setscrews to adjust feed rollers, guides, and blade angle to specifications.
• Verifies width and thickness of beveled edges, using micrometer.
• May use pedal to regulate speed of rollers along curved, straight, or angled edges of part or to change incline of rollers and alter width and thickness of bevel.
• May tend machines that roughen edges prior to cementing or skive narrow parts, such as straps and backstraps.
• May be designated according to parts skived as counter skiver; tuck skiver.
• May be designated: box-toe skiver; flare skiver; heel tap skiver; sock linings skiver; uppers skiver or linings; welt-end skiver.
• Important variables may be indicated by trade names of machines used.