A professional who sets up and operates reeling machine to round out and burnish inside and outside surfaces of seamless steel tubes. Respnsibilities include:

• Sets distance between rolls according to size of pipe shell and positions mandrel support bar between rolls.
• Installs specified plug on mandrel.
• Moves controls to push tube along conveyor, through stationary guides, and into rotating rolls that force tube over mandrel.
• Turns handwheel to maintain roll pressure on pipe shell to smooth surfaces and round out tube to specified diameter.