A professional who tends one or more cutting machines that cut woven races in greige corduroy cloth. Respnsibilities include:

• Sews end of cloth to leader, using portable sewing machine.
• Places slotted wire guides under circular cutting blades so blades project into guide slots, and inserts guides into alternate races with fingers.
• Positions magnetic stop-motion bar that automatically stops machine when guides slip out of cloth races and make contact with bar.
• Starts machine and observes cloth to detect inferior cutting.
• Notifies cutting-machine fixer of inferior cutting resulting from machine malfunction.
• Withdraws guides at seams, pulls seam through machine, and inserts guides into races behind seam to continue cutting process.
• Records lot number, piece number, yardage, and production.
• Doffs cloth from swing-folding attachment onto handtruck.
• Points guide tips and aligns guides, using pliers, whetstone, and emery cloth.