Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates machine to emboss designs on paper and plastics-coated textile and cut materials according to work orders: Positions material and pressure and engraved embossing rolls on machine frame, using hoist.

• 2) Installs and adjusts cutting disks and fastens collars on shafts to secure rolls, using rule, wrench, and screwdriver.

• 3) Threads material through rolls and around cutters, adjusts feed guides, and starts machine.

• 4) Turns air valve to regulate pressure of pressing roll on embossing roll and turns handwheel to adjust tension on material.

• 5) Observes feeding, embossing, and cutting of material, and makes adjustments.

• 6) Scrapes dirt from pressing roll and cleans it with solvent.

• 7) May adjust counterweight device or move lever or clutch to regulate pressure on rolls.

• 8) May regulate flow of steam into rolls to counteract paper curling and to obtain desired depth of embossing and surface shine on paper.

• 9) May tend winding machine to wind material onto rolls.

• 10) May emboss paper between tinted rollers.

• 11) May feed paper sheets into machine and be designated Sheeter Operator.