Job Description:

• 1) Tends one or more machines that fold and press pleats into materials, such as cloth, paper, plastic, or parchment: Turns thumbscrews or levers to adjust pleating knife according to width specified for pleats and for distance specified between pleats, and to adjust temperature of pressing rollers.

• 2) Places roll of material on rod at entry end of machine and draws end of fabric through guides, pleating knife, and between heated pressing rollers.

• 3) Laps end of fabric around takeup roll or guides end into box.

• 4) Starts machine and observes pleating for conformance to specifications.

• 5) May thread material between layers of paper to prevent heated rollers from scorching material.

• 6) May tend machine that attaches waxed thread to edges of material to hold pleats in fabric.