A professional who tends automatic machine that bales rubber pellets. Responsibilities include:

• Observes machine compressing, wrapping, and sealing rubber pellets into bales.
• Reads meters to verify weights of bales.
• Observes coating mechanism and distribution of dope, talc, or film on bales.
• Removes wet bales from machines.
• Examines metal detector and wrapping mechanism for defects.
• Turns valves and presses button that resets baling operations when automatic controls malfunction.
• May tend automatic machine that stacks bales on pallets for storage or shipment.