Job Description:

• 1) Buffs items, such as automobile trim or accessories, hardware, or fabricated plastic parts with cloth buffing wheel: Holds and moves parts against wheel to smooth surfaces, produce specified finish, or cut down plating defects, such as burns or salt deposits, using knowledge of metals and buffing operations.

• 2) Coats buffing wheel by holding buffing compound stick against revolving wheel.

• 3) Pushes and manipulates workpiece against buffing wheel to remove scratches and defects and produce specified finish, using knowledge of buffing operations and finishes.

• 4) Replaces worn buffs, using wrench.

• 5) Uses care not to cut through plate when buffing plated surfaces.

• 6) May be designated according to type of material buffed as Buffer, Chrome; Buffer, Copper; Buffer, Nickel.

• 7) May polish articles and buff articles and be designated Polisher And Buffer I.

• 8) May polish brass eye castings used in fitting wooden shuttles and clean castings in series of chemical solutions and be designated Strapper And Buffer.