A professional who sets up and operates slitting machine to cut sheet metal into strips of specified widths. Respnsibilities include:

• Selects, cleans, and installs spacers and cutters on arbors, and hones cutters with oilstone to remove nicks.
• Presses button to lower arbor until cutters mesh, and measures clearance with feeler gauge.
• Inserts spacers to adjust spacing to specified tolerance.
• Signals overhead crane operator to lift metal roll to play-out reel or places roll on reel, using overhead chain hoist.
• Threads sheeting through slitter and verifies dimensions of cut to specifications, using rule.
• Secures strips on recoiler, adjusts guides and roller tension with handcrank, and starts machine.
• Observes slitting and rewinding operation and examines cut strips for flatness, holes, burrs on edges, and surface defects.
• May oil and clean machine.
• May feed sheet metal between rotating shear rolls.
• May install rubber sleeves over spacers to provide gripping surface for rollers and to facilitate movement of material being slit.
• May operate panel to control specific units of equipment, such as feeder unit.