Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that smooths and presses seams of shoe parts, such as counters, quarters, and joints of uppers by following methods: Positions part under pounder or roller and guides part while machine pounds or rolls seams flat and smooth.

• 2) Positions part over or under preheated form and depresses pedal that lowers head of machine over part, pressing part to smooth seam.

• 3) Positions part on anvil under power hammer and depresses pedal that raises anvil and starts reciprocating hammer, flattening, and smoothing seam.

• 4) May soften parts, using water-soaked sponge.

• 5) May be designated according to type of machine operated as Power-Hammer Operator; Seam-Press Operator; or according to part of shoe smoothed as Heel-Seam Rubber; Quarter-Lining Smoother; Vamp Presser.