Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that automatically cuts and folds gauze backing around absorbent cotton to form surgical dressings: Starts machine that cuts gauze and absorbent cotton to size, folds gauze around cotton in prescribed manner to form surgical pad, and ejects pad.

• 2) Examines ejected pads for size, folding of gauze and defects in absorbent cotton.

• 3) May pack specified quantity of pads in bags or cartons.