A professional who tends automatic vacuum crane that removes lites of glass from cutoff machine conveyor. Responsibilities include:

• Turns valves to activate vacuum cups on crane that hold glass during unloading-stacking cycle, and starts crane.
• Inspects glass for spalls (rough edges) as glass passes on conveyor.
• Trims spalls from glass with glass-cutting wheel and notifies glass-cutting-machine operator, automatic of glass condition for correction.
• Stops crane cycle to allow passage of broken or defective glass from conveyor into cullet waste glass chute.
• Counts glass stacked on turntable, and pushes switch to move turntable to next loading station.
• May use spotlight to highlight defects in glass.
• May work as member of team.
• May load lites on automatic, multicutting machine to cut lites into sections, using automatic vacuum-cupped crane, and be designated glass-loading-equipment tender.