A professional who tends calender machine that compresses cloth and coated cloth sheeting to produce artificial leather fabric. Respnsibilities include:

• Changes cloth rolls on letoff rack and windup racks, and threads sheeting through calender rollers with assistance of general laborer.
• Scrapes surfaces of fiber rollers to remove foreign material.
• Sews ends of cloth rolls together to form continuous sheet, using sewing machine.
• Inspects sheeting being calendered to detect turned edges, material defects, or uneven coating.
• Applies gummed tape to holes, faulty seams, or frayed edges, and smooths wrinkles.
• Applies soap solution to roller to remove surface depressions, and starts calender to dry rollers by friction.
• May be designated according to processing stage as raw-calender operator; second-calender operator; third-calender operator.