Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that winds wire onto drum to form electric heating elements for airplane deicers: Aligns and tapes precut sheet of fabric on drum of machine.

• 2) Determines location of element parts on fabric and length of element wires, using template.

• 3) Tapes braided wire connections and solders strips to fabric in specified locations.

• 4) Brushes rubber cement on fabric, and threads wire into machine.

• 5) Turns dials to adjust machine that crimps and spaces element wires during winding, and starts machine.

• 6) Cuts element wires to specified length and tapes ends of wires to fabric.

• 7) Verifies length and spacing of element wires with rule.

• 8) Counts number of wires specified for sections of element, and pulls off excess wires.

• 9) Solders parts, such as bus bars and braided connections to element wires, using soldering iron.

• 10) Cuts fabric, containing formed element, from drum of machine, using scissors, and lays element on stockrack.