Table Operator Job Description:

Operates traveling and stationary tables to feed heated or cold steel or nonferrous blooms, billets, and slabs to rolls for successive passes through roll stands: Moves levers to position tilting and trailing tables in front or rear of roll stand and align steel with roll guides preparatory to feeding steel into rolls. Starts table rollers that feed steel into rolls for specified number of passes. Aids other workers in making roll changes and adjusting equipment. May be designated according to type of table operated as Approach-Table Operator (nonfer. metal; steel & rel.); Delivery-Table Operator (nonfer. metal; steel & rel.); Tilting-Table Operator (steel & rel.); Transfer-Table Operator (steel & rel.).