Job Description:

• 1) Finishes brushes, performing any combination of following tasks: Holds wooden brush surface against sanding wheel and buffer to sand and polish brush heads and handles.

• 2) Trims, tapers, and shapes brush-filling material according to prescribed standards by pushing brush over rotary trimmer, feeding it into trimming machine, or holding brush over blades of clipping machine.

• 3) Removes dust and loose filling material by placing brush in centrifugal cleaning machine, holding it against cleaning brush, or feeding it into combing machine.

• 4) Dips brush handle in varnish or lacquer or sprays handle with varnish or lacquer and hangs it on rack to dry.

• 5) Paints identifying stripes on brush handle.

• 6) Examines brush for conformity to job specifications and defects and makes corrections, such as retouching varnished or lacquered surface and hand-trimming filling material.

• 7) Repairs cracked handles and bent ferrules.

• 8) Separates and reroutes brushes that cannot be repaired to corrective work station.

• 9) May flatten ferrule, using press machine, and nail band or ferrule to brush.

• 10) May attach handle to brush.