Job Description:

• 1) Operates roughing mill stands under direction of ROUGHER to reduce steel billets, blooms, or slabs to specified dimensions: Starts roughing rolls and auxiliary equipment, such as conveyor tables, scalebreaker, and water sprays.

• 2) Signals CHARGER OPERATOR to discharge metal object from furnace preparatory to rolling.

• 3) Moves controls to position metal on conveyor and guide it into rolls.

• 4) Adjusts controls to regulate scalebreaker and water sprays that remove scale from metal.

• 5) Installs guides in roughing stands and removes cobbles from rolling line.

• 6) May assist other workers to change rolls, drag scrap, and pull spanners when mill is down.