Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that coats wire with flux and marks and cuts wire into specified lengths to produce welding electrodes: Starts machine and observes as cores are automatically conveyed through wire feeder, coating nozzle in extrusion head, and past abrasive brushes, cutters, and marking wheels.

• 2) Examines welding rods for cracks, voids, scores, or scuffs.

• 3) Presses buttons to alter pressure of ram in feeding cylinder or speed of wire feeder to correct defects in formation of rods.

• 4) May measure welding rods with fixed gauge and turn screws to adjust coating nozzle to obtain specified diameter and concentricity of rod.

• 5) May adjust abrasive brushes that remove flux from ends and center of coated rod at cutting point.

• 6) May adjust controls to maintain specified temperature when extruding carbon rods.