A professional who tends machine that cuts spiral grooves in wood dowel-rods and shaves circumference of rod to specified size. Responsibilities include:

• Starts rodding machine.
• Inserts dowel rods into feed trough and between feed rollers of rodding machine that cuts spiral groove in rods and trims diameter of rods to specified size.
• Observes cutting action of rodding machine and stops machine when malfunctions are noted.
• Removes spiraled rods from tail end chute and stacks rods on handtruck for removal to subsequent processing.
• Notifies specified personnel of malfunction of machine.