Cutting & Slicing Machine Operators

Job Duties:  The worker sets up, operates, or tends machines that cut or slice stones. Applicants will mark cutting lines and feedstock into cutting machines, onto conveyors, or under cutting blades by threading, guiding, pushing, or turning handwheels. Start pumps to circulate water. Review and maintain production records, work orders, blueprints, specifications or job samples. Determine settings and adjustments for machines, quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced. Start machines, verify setups, make necessary adjustments, type instructions on computer keyboards, and use buttons, levers, and pedals to operate machinery. Monitor and adjust the operation of cutting machines to detect malfunctions and alter position, alignment, speed, or pressure. Use conveyors, carts, hand trucks, lift trucks, cranes, manual labor, and other tools and equipment to move, stack, and sort cut material for further processing as well as removing defective or substandard materials from machines. Applicants will also clean and lubricate cutting machines, conveyors, blades, saws, or knives, and change or replace saw blades, cables, cutter heads, and grinding wheels. Sharpen cutting blades, knives, or saws using files, bench grinders, or honing stones.