Job Description:

• 1) Operates machines to make barrel hoops from strap steel: Installs and adjusts rollers, punches, and shear plates in hoop-punch-and-coiler machines, using wrenches.

• 2) Places roll of strap steel on spindle, inserts end in feed rollers and starts machine.

• 3) Removes punched and coiled hoops.

• 4) Aligns holes in ends of coiled hoops on shank of rivets in guide slots of riveting machine.

• 5) Slides hoop with protruding rivets under reciprocating hammer that flattens rivet shanks.

• 6) Places hoop over mandrel of hoop-flaring machine and moves leg control to expand jaws that flare hoop to conform to shape of barrel.

• 7) May be designated according to machine operated as Hoop-Flaring-Machine Operator; Hoop-Punch-And-Coiler Operator; Hoop-Riveting Machine Operator.