A professional who operates roughing mill stands under direction of rougher to reduce steel billets, blooms, or slabs to specified dimensions. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts roughing rolls and auxiliary equipment, such as conveyor tables, scalebreaker, and water sprays.
• Signals charger operator to discharge metal object from furnace preparatory to rolling.
• Moves controls to position metal on conveyor and guide it into rolls.
• Adjusts controls to regulate scalebreaker and water sprays that remove scale from metal.
• Installs guides in roughing stands and removes cobbles from rolling line.
• May assist other workers to change rolls, drag scrap, and pull spanners when mill is down.