Job Description:

• 1) Tends picking machine that opens or shreds and fluffs raw or used materials, such as wool, kapok, foam rubber, or hair to facilitate further processing: Cuts open bales of raw materials.

• 2) Starts machine and deposits handfuls of raw material on feeding apron that conveys material into picking or shredding rollers.

• 3) Observes machine to detect clogged rollers.

• 4) Stops machine, and strips fiber from rollers, using knife, scissors, or hands.

• 5) May spray raw material with oil emulsion.

• 6) May be designated according to material processed as Hair-Picking-Machine Operator; Tow-Picker Operator; Wool-Picker Operator.