A professional who tends slitting machine that cuts sheets of hair-felt board into strips which are fed into presses that stamp out filler wads for shotgun shells. Responsibilities include:

• Turns handwheel to adjust feed rollers to accommodate thickness of sheets to be slit and feed guide bar to specified strip width.
• Starts machine and pushes sheets against guide bar into feed rollers to obtain desired number of sheets.
• Measures width and thickness of cut strips to verify conformance to specifications, using ruler and fixed gauge.