A professional who tends machine equipped with multiple abrasive blades that cuts asbestos-cement pipe into blanks in manufacture of pipe couplings. Responsibilities include:

• Adjusts and spaces abrasive blades to cut pipe to specified lengths, using wrench.
• Turns crank to set hydraulic lifters that automatically raise blades that cut pipe.
• Measures diameter of pipe, using tape measure, and turns handwheel to adjust position of pressure-drive roll according to diameter of pipe being cut.
• Loads pipe onto feed rack by hand, or using monorail hoist, and rolls pipe into position over cutting blades.
• Moves lever to lower pressure-drive roll that holds and rotates pipe during cutting process.
• Presses buttons to start machine that cuts pipe into blanks.
• Moves lever and pushes button to lift pressure-drive roll and withdraw cutting blades.
• Moves lever to extend pivoted metal shaft through blanks to lift and remove coupling blanks from machine.
• Inspects and measures blanks to verify conformity to specifications.
• Marks identifying information onto blanks, using stencil, paint, and brush, and stacks pipe on steam tray.
• Records production data.