Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that fastens metal caps and erasers to ends of wooden pencils or rounds pencil ends: Places pencils, ferrules, and erasers in separate hoppers and starts machine that installs and fastens ferrule to pencil, inserts eraser in ferrule, and imprints specified data on pencil.

• 2) Removes tipped pencils from machine and examines pencils for defects, such as broken erasers or loose ferrules.

• 3) Ties accepted pencils into designated size bundles.