Job Description:

• 1) Tends machines that cut scrap tires or split rubber sheets for reclaiming rubber: Adjusts guides to accommodate tire size and cut to be made, and installs blades, using handtools.

• 2) Lifts tire or sheet onto powered rollers by hand or with hoist.

• 3) Starts rollers that force tire or sheet against blade or endless-belt-type saw to split tire or sheet into piles, shear tire into sections, sever bead from tire, trim rubber from carcass, or separate sponge rubber from carpeting.

• 4) May be designated according to type of cutting performed as Carcass Trimmer; Scrap-Tire Shearer; Tire Debeader.