A professional who tends machine that cuts cavity to form heel seat in heels. Responsibilities include:

• Bolts specified cutting disk to machine.
• Turns setscrews to adjust machine for length and depth of cut.
• Loads heels into feeding device or positions heel under machine guide and depresses pedal to start machine that cuts gouge in heels and ejects them into storage container.
• May cut gouge in heel lifts and be designated heel-lift gouger.