A professional who tends equipment that mixes, rolls, cuts, and grinds raw materials into chips used to marbleize vinyl and asphalt asbestos floor tile. Respnsibilities include:

• Weighs out specified quantities of materials, such as limestone, resins, and asbestos fibers, and dumps them into hopper of mixer.
• Starts mixer and adjusts temperature controls to attain specified consistency of material.
• Dumps materials from mixers onto conveyor that conveys material into calenders that roll materials to prescribed thickness.
• Presses pedal to activate knife that automatically cuts material into slabs.
• Loads slabs onto conveyor that moves them through drying oven and dumps them into grinders to form chips.