A professional who operates machine to slit continuous lengths of material, such as cardboard, felt, metallic foil, paper, plastic, rubberized sheeting, or textile fabrics, into strips of specified width. Responsibilities include:

• Spaces rotary blades on machine shaft, according to width specified for strips, and turns setscrew to secure blades in position, using allen wrench.
• Mounts roll or bolt of material on machine supports and threads material over tension bar, between feed rollers, and under rotary blades.
• Laps ends of slit material around takeup tubes i.
• Starts machine and observes flow of material through machine to detect irregular cutting and winding.
• Moves levers to stop, start, and regulate speed of machine and to align material with rotary blades.
• Disengages winding shaft and removes narrow rolls of material.
• Stacks material on shelves according to width of material.
• When slitting aluminum foil into widths, is designated aluminum-foil-spooling-machine operator.
• When slitting embroidered cloth into strips for use as decorative trimming, is designated machine straight cutter.
• May be designated according to material or product cut as binding cutter; cuff slitter; electric-tape slitter; facing slitter; paper slitter; tape cutter.