A professional who sets up and operates one or more wire saws to cut blocks of stone into specified dimensions. Responsibilities include:

• Threads cables through machine pulleys and solders ends of cable together, using silver solder and torch.
• Builds bed of timbers on car preparatory to positioning stone on car.
• Signals overhead crane operator or operates crane to position stone on bed of car.
• Starts winch that pulls car onto track under sawing cable.
• Levels stone on timber bed, using crowbar, wedges, blocks, rule, and spirit level.
• Marks dimensions on stone according to diagram, using rule, square, straightedge, and chalked line.
• Presses button to lower sawing cable onto stone and moves car to align cable with line marked on stone.
• Positions abrasive hose on stone, and starts saw and pump that circulate abrasive and water under moving cables that cut stone by dragging abrasive across stone.
• Observes operation to detect uneven sawing and exhausting supply of abrasive.
• Tightens pulleys to increase tension on cables to restore even sawing.
• Dumps abrasive in abrasive pit to maintain cutting speed.
• Verifies width or thickness of cut stone, using rule.
• Replaces worn cables.
• May cut sheet metal pattern of design to be sawed.
• May drill holes in stone and insert saw cable through hole, using portable drill.
• May operate vertically mounted wire saw to cut out designs in stone.
• May be designated according to type of saw operated as contour wire sawyer; multiple-wire sawyer.