A professional who tends machine that imparts raised design or finish on cloth, coated fabrics, or plastic sheeting, by means of heat and pressure from engraved steel rollers. Respnsibilities include:

• Adjusts automatic device that regulates heat, or turns valve to admit steam to rollers.
• Slides bar through center of material roll and lifts it onto machine feed brackets.
• Threads material between rollers and laps end onto takeup tube.
• Starts machine and moves controls to adjust speed, pressure of rollers, and tension of material.
• Observes material as it passes through machine to prevent seams, rolled selvages, or trash from damaging rollers.
• May guide material by hand.
• May verify temperature of roller, using pyrometer.
• May sew cuts of cloth together, using portable sewing machine.
• May be designated according to material embossed as silk-crepe-machine operator.
• May tend machine that imparts artificial graining, size, trademark, or other designs to sweatbands and be designated weatband-decorating-machine operator.
• Important variables may be indicated by trade names of machine used.