A professional who operates line of machines to form wood fiber mats and to cut and press them into hardboard panels. Respnsibilities include:

• Installs and adjusts stainless-steel cauls and screens, drive sprockets, chains, rollers, and cutoff saw, using handtools.
• Starts machine and cutoff saw.
• Observes gauges and turns valves to regulate water and steam pressure and to control temperature of press.
• Moves panelboard control switches to adjust pressing time and to synchronize timing of tiered feeding and unloading conveyors with elevator movement of tiered hardboard press.
• Observes forming of mat, cutting of panels, and pressing of panels into hardboard to ensure product of specified dimension and quality.
• May ride open elevator and flip end of panel in each tier of press to loosen it from hot pressing plate and facilitate automatic transfer to tiered unloading conveyor.
• May verify weight of sample panels, using scale.