Job Description:

• 1) Tends one or more slide-forming machines that automatically feed, punch, cut and form strip metal or wire stock to fabricate parts, such as spring clips, brackets, terminal clips, and hairpins: Threads strip metal or wire through straightening rolls and die sets by turning flywheel by hand and starts machine.

• 2) Measures sample of finished parts with fixed gauges and examines parts for surface defects or scratches.

• 3) Shuts off machine and notifies supervisor or machine setter if parts do not meet specifications.

• 4) May weld ends of two coils together by locking ends in electric-welding device and pulling lever, to form continuous length of stock.