Job Description:

• 1) Tends wet end of machine that cuts and paints wallboard, as directed by FOURDRINIER-MACHINE OPERATOR: Turns valve to regulate flow of paint onto wet board.

• 2) Turns handwheel to adjust cutters.

• 3) Guides end of wet-board mat from pressure rolls onto tipple rolls at start of each new run.

• 4) Observes wet-board panels and pulls lever to drop defective boards into recovery box.

• 5) Sharpens and cleans cutter as it rotates.

• 6) Removes and replaces screens and pressure rolls, using hoist and handtools.

• 7) May weigh sample of wet board, dry sample in electric retort, and compute moisture loss and estimated density, using standard conversion tables or slide rule.

• 8) May measure thickness of board, using calipers.

• 9) May record production data in logbook.