Slitter Machine Operator

  • Full-time

Company Description

Shifts: 1st (6.00 AM – 4.30 PM ) - $13/hr - $14/hr – Monday to Thursday

             2nd (4.30 PM – 3.00 AM ) - $13/hr - $14/hr – Monday to Thursday


Job Description

  • Sets up and operates slitting machine to cut sheet metal into strips of specified widths.
  • Selects, cleans, and installs spacers and cutters on arbors, and hones cutters with oilstone to remove nicks.
  • Presses button to lower arbor until cutters mesh, and measures clearance with a feeler gauge.
  • Inserts spacers to adjust spacing to a specified tolerance.
  • Signals OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATOR to lift metal roll to play-out reel or places roll on the reel, using an overhead chain hoist.
  • Threads sheeting through slitter and verify dimensions of cut to specifications, using rule.
  • Secures strips on recoiler, adjusts guides and roller tension with a hand crank, and starts the machine.
  • Observes slitting and rewinding operation and examines cut strips for flatness, holes, burrs on edges, and surface defects.
  • May oil and clean machine.
  • May feed sheet metal between rotating shear rolls.
  • May install rubber sleeves over spacers to provide a gripping surface for rollers and to facilitate movement of material being slit.
  • May operate panel to control specific units of equipment, such as feeder unit.

Additional Information

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Direct Number- 734-984-4499