A professional who tends cutting and stamping equipment that cuts bars of soap from logs (long bars of soap) and embosses bars with firm name or trademark. Respnsibilities include:

• Moves controls to regulate machine speed to maintain uniform movement of soap through plodder (bar-forming machine), cutting and stamping machines, and cooling tower.
• Examines soap bars for clean-cut form and uniform color and stops equipment when bars are defective, unbolts plodder, and removes accumulated soap from plodder plate.
• May rub bars under running water to test them for smoothness.
• Sends sample bars to laboratory for moisture tests.
• May tend press that presses bars into specified shape.