Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that binds evergreen and conifer twigs with wire to make garlands and wreath stock: Places spool of wire on machine feed spindle and threads wire between crimping gears and through guides to wrapping chamber.

• 2) Adjusts meter of measuring device that rings bell as specified lengths of garland are formed.

• 3) Starts machine, inserts ends of twigs into wrapping chamber, and depresses pedal to actuate mechanism that binds twigs into continuous strand of garland.

• 4) Cuts garland to specified length with wire cutters and places them on table or conveyor.

• 5) May bend lengths of garland into circle, twist wire ends together, and tie ribbon bow over wire joint to form wreaths.

• 6) When concerned only with making wreaths, is designated Wreath-Machine Operator.