Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that loads and unloads press and humidifier unit that press and treat hardboard, performing any combination of following tasks: Starts conveyor to transfer unpressed mats of woodpulp to automatic press loader.

• 2) Aligns shelves of press loader with opening in press, and moves controls to transfer mat to pressing screen or metal plate on press bed.

• 3) Moves controls to align press unloader with press discharge and to activate tongs that grasp pressing screen or plate to pull hardboard from press onto unloader shelves.

• 4) Lowers unloader and retracts tongs.

• 5) Moves humidifier transfer car to press unloader and starts hydraulic mechanism that aligns openings in car with shelves of unloader.

• 6) Starts unloader rollers that transfer pressed hardboard sheets onto humidifier car.

• 7) Pushes car to humidifier, and activates piston that transfers car to humidifier.

• 8) Unloads humidifier car after it is automatically discharged from humidifier by aligning rollers of unloading device with car and feeding boards between rollers that pile boards for packing.

• 9) Assists HUMIDIFIER OPERATOR to remove pressing screens manually from press and transfer them to dolly.

• 10) Examines screens for damage or defects and marks faulty screens, using crayon.

• 11) Transfers usable screens to press loader for reuse.