A professional who cleans, deburrs, polishes, or grinds items of metal, plastic, or rubber, using handtools or powered equipment, performing any combination of following tasks. Responsibilities include:

• Scrapes or rubs parts with file, wire brush, or buffing cloth.
• Holds part against buffing or grinding wheel.
• Deburrs or polishes parts, using portable grinder, chipping hammer, buffer, deburring tool, or hand pick.
• Mounts part on revolving spindle or chuck and holds or moves tools, such as file, abrasive stone, or cloth against workpiece to file, grind, polish, or buff surface.
• Cleans interior surfaces of holes, using reamer.
• Changes tools on powered equipment.
• Applies abrasive compound, wax, or other dressing to facilitate cleaning or polishing operation.
• May be known according to process performed as buffer ii; burrer; axle burrer-marker; top-edge beveler; wire brusher.