Job Description:

• 1) Sets up battery of punch presses to stamp out hair-felt and cardboard wads for shotgun shells: Removes, replaces, and adjusts cutters, punches, bushings, dies, ratchets, pawls, web choppers, springs, and chains, using handtools.

• 2) Turns setscrews and stop nuts to synchronize feeding and punching mechanisms and to position tools.

• 3) Measures sample wads after each tool change or adjustment to verify specified diameter, using ring gauge.

• 4) Notifies MAINTENANCE MECHANIC when machines, conveyors, or screening barrels require major repairs.

• 5) Trains new workers in tending machines.