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DOT Code: 615.685-034

Industry: any industry
Alternate Titles: power-shear operator

Tends power shear that cuts metal objects, such as sheets, plates, billets or bars, to specified length: Lifts workpiece manually, or by hoist or crane, to machine bed or roller table. Positions workpiece against side guides and end stops or aligns layout lines under shear blade. Starts machine that clamps workpiece and lowers blade to cut metal. May tend shear on production line where shear is fed by conveyor, such as automobile frame line or rolling mill. May position stops according to calibrated gauge on machine to shear to length such items as scrap, billets, or reinforcing rods. May verify size of sheared items, using tape measurer, caliper, or template. May shear metal to specified circular or curved dimensions. May be designated by type of shear as Alligator-Shear Operator (any industry); Gate-Shear Operator (any industry) I; or by application of shear as Hot-Billet-Shear Operator (smelt. & refin.; steel & rel.); Scrap-Shear Operator (any industry); Square-Shear Operator (any industry) Ii.

GOE: 06.04.02 STRENGTH: H GED: R2 M2 L2 SVP: 4 DLU: 79