A professional who mounts rolls of paper on machines, such as combiner, coating machine, and waxing machine, and performs related duties to assist machine operators. Respnsibilities include:

• Inserts metal shaft through core of paper roll, positions roll on machine feedrack, using hoist, and clamps shaft in bearings.
• Shoves core on rewind shaft and positions shaft in machine rewind rack.
• Assists operator in threading paper through machine, and starts end of paper around rewind core.
• Splices breaks in paper, using tape and hot iron.
• Removes rewound roll from machine with hoist, and pulls shaft from core by hand.
• Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
• May stack cardboard container blanks and return blanks to operator for further processing of untreated sides of blanks.
• May examine coating of blanks for imperfections and notify operator when imperfections occur.
• May be designated according to worker assisted, as Coating-Machine-Operator Helper; Combiner-Operator Helper; Supercalender-Operator Helper (paper & pulp); Waxing-Machine-Operator Helper (paper goods).