A professional who tends machine that forms longitudinal bends, rolls, beads, or embosses designs onto sheet metal strips to form items, such as molding, structural shapes, and weatherstripping. Respnsibilities include:

• Bolts specified roller dies onto prepositioned spindles.
• Loads coils of strip onto feedrack.
• Turns knob to set footage meter and control which stops machine, or activates automatic shear.
• Threads end of coil into feed rolls.
• Starts machine to form and cut strip to specified length.
• Removes bundles of cut and finished pieces from machine bed.
• Inspects finished pieces visually or using fixed gauge.
• May weld together ends of feed coils to form continuous feed, using automatic butt welder.