Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

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.

Job Task

• Activates shear and grinder to trim workpiece, cut steel strips, and monitor forming of gears to specified length and diameter.
• Threads or feeds sheets or rods through rolling mechanism, or starts and controls mechanism that automatically feeds steel into rollers.
• Removes scratches and polishes roll surface, using polishing stone and electric buffer.
• Disassembles sizing mills removed from rolling line, and sorts and stores parts.
• Starts operation of rolling and milling machines to flatten, temper, form, and reduce sheet metal sections and produce steel strips.
• Manipulates controls and observes dial indicators to monitor, adjust, and regulate speed of machine mechanisms.
• Resets, adjusts, and corrects machine set-up to reduce thickness, reshape products, and eliminate product defects.
• Calculates draft space and roll speed for each mill stand to plan rolling sequence and specified dimensions and temper.
• Reads rolling order and mill schedules to determine setup specifications, work sequence, product dimensions, and installation procedures.
• Examines, inspects, measures, and feels raw materials and finished product to verify conformance to specifications, visually or using measurement instruments.
• Fills oil cups, adjusts valves, and observes gauges to control flow of metal coolant and lubricants onto workpiece.
• Installs equipment, such as guides, guards, gears, cooling equipment and rolls, using hand tools.
• Positions, aligns, and secures arbor, spindle, coils, mandrel, dies, and slitting knives onto machine.
• Sets distance points between rolls, guides, meters, and stops, according to specifications.
• Selects rolls, dies, roll stands, and chucks from data charts to form specified contours and to fabricate products.
• Monitors machine cycles and mill operation to detect jamming and to ensure fabricated products conform to specifications.
• Signals and assists other workers to remove and position equipment, fill hoppers, and feed materials into machine.
• Directs and trains other workers to change rolls, operate mill equipment, remove coils and cobbles, and band and load material.
• Records mill production on schedule sheet.

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