A professional who tends machine that shapes and cuts wooden blanks to form pencils. Responsibilities include:

• Places blanks in hopper and starts machine.
• Removes pencils from bin of machine and places pencils in rack.
• Ties pencils into bundles.
• May replace machine cutters according to size and shape of pencil, using wrench.
• May examine pencils for surface defects, such as nicks and scratches, and measure diameter of pencils, using micrometer.