A professional who tends padding machine that saturates cloth with dye preparatory to further processing. Respnsibilities include:

• Positions handtruck of cloth at feed-end of machine or mounts roll of cloth on machine, using power hoist, and threads cloth through rollers, or sews supply end to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
• Sets air pressure gauge to control pressure on squeeze roll and temperature gauge to control temperature of dye.
• Notifies dye-weigher helper to release dye to overflow tank.
• Turns valves to fill padding tank with dye.
• Starts machine to pass cloth through dye, between squeeze rolls and onto takeup roll. Doffs roll of cloth from machine, or may feed cloth to set of drying cans. Cuts sample of cloth for inspection by supervisor dyer.
• May weigh and mix dye and chemicals.