A professional who tends equipment that inlays glass, metal, and plastic figures into pocket knives, money clips, key cases, gearshift balls, and other products. Responsibilities include:

• Places product in gas furnace to soften it.
• Removes product from furnace, using tongs.
• Places article on machine and depresses pedal to lower ram that indents surface of article.
• Inserts figure into surface indentation of article by hand or by machine.
• May tend machine that stamps design on face of article.
• May be designated according to kind of substance inlaid as silver inlayer.