A professional who tends machine that opens, cleans, fluffs, and reduces soft waste yarn, sliver, and roving to fiber for reuse. Responsibilities include:

• Spreads armfuls of waste material on feeder apron of machine.
• Starts machine, and wraps web of processed material around takeup roller or positions truck beneath delivery apron of machine.
• Observes processing of waste to detect clogged rollers and disentangles rollers by hand.
• Doffs, laps, or trucks material from delivery end of machine.