A professional who performs any combination of following tasks involved in manufacture of tin cans. Responsibilities include:

• Opens bales of tinplate, using cutters.
• Removes rust spots, oil stains, or other surface accumulations, from sheets of tinplate, using steel wool, scouring powder, or cloths soaked in alcohol.
• Straightens bent or dented tinplate with mallet.
• Places cans and lids on paint racks, prior to painting process and removes painted items from racks for shipping.
• Supplies packing-line workers with packing materials.
• Places units, such as handles and cleats on flux pads and positions nozzles and solder strips on cans on conveyors that pass into ovens used to join items to cans.
• Packs cans or lids in cardboard containers by hand or using packing machine, or bulk-packs cans in railroad cars or transport trucks with handtools.
• Lines railroad cars or trucks with paper and installs bulkheads for bulk loading.
• Sorts cans according to size and type.
• Feeds flattened can bodies through reforming machine to straighten them.
• Seals containers with tape, staples, and bands or feeds filled containers through glue machine.
• Repairs, relabels, and collapses used cartons for subsequent use.
• Wraps pallet loads of cans with cardboard and paper.
• Stacks, moves, or loads cans, containers, materials, and supplies around areas of plant by hand, truck, or cart.
• May inspect units for obvious defects and discard defective items.
• May be designated according to work assigned as bag sealer; can-reforming-machine operator; can stacker; cleaner.