A professional who sets up and operates metal-sawing machines, such as hacksaw, bandsaw, circular saw, friction saw, and rubber-disk saw to cut metal stock to dimensions. Respnsibilities include:

• Reads job order for specifications, such as material, type, and size of stock, and dimensions to be cut.
• Obtains and transfers stock to machine, manually or with hoist.
• Installs saw blade and sets blade tension and cutting speed for specified operation.
• Sets saw blade angle to obtain desired angle cuts, using wrench.
• Sets stops and guides to control dimension of cut, using steel rule and wrenches.
• Positions and secures stock against stops or in feeding device.
• Turns valve to start flow of coolant against cutting area.
• Starts machine and observes operation.
• Measures work for conformance to specifications, using rule.
• Marks identifying data on workpiece.
• Replaces defective cutting blade or wheel, using handtools.
• May be required to have experience with custom or production work or with particular material, product, size of workpiece, or type or trade name of machine and be designated accordingly.