Job Description:

• 1) Operates roughing mill roll stands to reduce steel billets, blooms, and slabs to specified dimensions, using knowledge of rolling practices and steel properties: Reads rolling order to determine setup specifications.

• 2) Installs rolling equipment, such as roll stands, guides, bar turners, and repeaters on rolling line, using handtools, bars, levers, and sledges.

• 3) Moves controls to set specified draft between rolls at each stand.

• 4) Observes color of heated steel to determine rolling temperature and starts roughing stands.

• 5) Examines product passing through mill for surface defects, such as scratches and cracks.

• 6) Verifies specified gauge of product after each pass, using calipers.

• 7) Gives directions to mill crew in readjusting roll draft and realigning guides.

• 8) May set up and monitor computerized roughing roll stands.

• 9) May be designated according to type of mill operated as Rougher, Bar Mill; Rougher, Hot-Strip Mill; Rougher, Merchant Mill.