A professional who tends concentrating tables that separate valuable metals from gangue of ore and scrap. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valves to regulate flow of pulp onto tables.
• Regulates speed of reciprocating tables to effect maximum separation and recovery of metals.
• Adjusts slope of tables to establish line of separation between ore and gangue and between valuable metal and scrap.
• Repairs tables, and adjusts and lubricates driving mechanism.
• May be designated according to materials processed as Table Tender, Sludge.