Job Description:

• 1) Tends power shear that cuts metal objects, such as sheets, plates, billets or bars, to specified length: Lifts workpiece manually, or by hoist or crane, to machine bed or roller table.

• 2) Positions workpiece against side guides and end stops or aligns layout lines under shear blade.

• 3) Starts machine that clamps workpiece and lowers blade to cut metal.

• 4) May tend shear on production line where shear is fed by conveyor, such as automobile frame line or rolling mill.

• 5) May position stops according to calibrated gauge on machine to shear to length such items as scrap, billets, or reinforcing rods.

• 6) May verify size of sheared items, using tape measurer, caliper, or template.

• 7) May shear metal to specified circular or curved dimensions.

• 8) May be designated by type of shear as Alligator-Shear Operator; Gate-Shear Operator I; or by application of shear as Hot-Billet-Shear Operator; Scrap-Shear Operator; Square-Shear Operator II.