Set up, operate, or tend machines to roll steel or plastic forming bends, beads, knurls, rolls, or plate or to flatten, temper, or reduce gauge of material.
<ul><li>Adjust and correct machine set-ups to reduce thicknesses, reshape products, and eliminate product defects.</li><li>Monitor machine cycles and mill operation to detect jamming and to ensure that products conform to specifications.</li><li>Start operation of rolling and milling machines to flatten, temper, form, and reduce sheet metal sections and to produce steel strips.</li><li>Examine, inspect, and measure raw materials and finished products to verify conformance to specifications.</li><li>Read rolling orders, blueprints, and mill schedules to determine setup specifications, work sequences, product dimensions, and installation procedures.</li><li>Manipulate controls and observe dial indicators to monitor, adjust, and regulate speeds of machine mechanisms.</li><li>Set distance points between rolls, guides, meters, and stops, according to specifications.</li><li>Install equipment such as guides, guards, gears, cooling equipment, and rolls, using hand tools.</li><li>Calculate draft space and roll speed for each mill stand to plan rolling sequences and specified dimensions and tempers.</li><li>Position, align, and secure arbors, spindles, coils, mandrels, dies, and slitting knives.</li><li>Fill oil cups, adjust valves, and observe gauges to control flow of metal coolants and lubricants onto workpieces.</li><li>Signal and assist other workers to remove and position equipment, fill hoppers, and feed materials into machines.</li><li>Activate shears and grinders to trim workpieces.</li><li>Record mill production on schedule sheets.</li><li>Direct and train other workers to change rolls, operate mill equipment, remove coils and cobbles, and band and load material.</li></ul>