A professional who tends battery of machines that form continuous sheets of pulp from woodpulp slush. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts machines and turns valves to regulate flow of slush pulp into machine vat.
• Turns handwheels to adjust feed cylinders in vat, pressure of press rolls, and tension on pickup felt to produce pulp sheet of specified moisture content.
• Cuts and folds continuous sheet into laps and loads laps onto skid or handtruck.
• May install cutters to cut sheets to specified dimensions.