A professional who sets up and operates pantograph engraving machine to engrave designs or lettering on engraving dies, nameplates, stamps or seals, following two or three-dimensional pattern or blueprint. Responsibilities include:

• Positions and secures pattern to workpiece on cutting table, using rule, square, calipers, and fixtures.
• Sets reduction scale and controls of pantograph to attain specified size of reproduction on workpiece and height, depth, and width of cut.
• Sharpens cutting tools on cutter grinder.
• Inserts cutting tool into spindle of machine and secures it with wrench.
• Starts machine and lowers stylus to beginning point on pattern.
• Guides stylus over pattern.
• Observes action of cutting tool and adjusts movement of stylus to ensure accurate reproduction and verifies conformance to specifications, using micrometers and calipers.
• May observe action of cutting tool through microscope.