A professional who tends one or more machines that fold and press pleats into materials, such as cloth, paper, plastic, or parchment. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns thumbscrews or levers to adjust pleating knife according to width specified for pleats and for distance specified between pleats, and to adjust temperature of pressing rollers.
• Places roll of material on rod at entry end of machine and draws end of fabric through guides, pleating knife, and between heated pressing rollers.
• Laps end of fabric around takeup roll or guides end into box.
• Starts machine and observes pleating for conformance to specifications.
• May thread material between layers of paper to prevent heated rollers from scorching material.
• May tend machine that attaches waxed thread to edges of material to hold pleats in fabric.