A professional who tends machine that slits rolls of metallic yarn material into narrow yarn widths for use in textile manufacture. Respnsibilities include:

• Positions narrow roll of laminated metallic material on machine arbor and threads end of material through antistatic pad, circular cutters, tension rollers, and around takeup bobbins.
• Turns valve to drop oil on antistatic pad.
• Starts machine and observes flow of material through machine to detect wrinkles and splices in material and breaks in yarn.
• Cuts out defects, using scissors, and ties broken yarn ends.
• Doffs full bobbins of metallic yarn from takeup spindles.