Job Description:

• 1) Tends machines that wind magnetic tape into reels or cassette hubs for use in communication and control equipment, instruments, and computers: Positions tape supply reels or cassette hubs on letoff and windup spindles of tape winding machines.

• 2) Loops tape from supply reels through machine guides and into blank reels or hubs.

• 3) Turns knob of footage counter devices that automatically cut tape and stop machines when specified length of tape has been wound into blank reels or hubs.

• 4) Pushes switches to start individual machines and removes wound reels or hubs when machines stop.

• 5) Scrapes detected surface defects from tape with knife.

• 6) Splices tape ends together to form continuous loops in cassettes, using bench splicer.

• 7) Inserts filled and blank hubs into cassettes and attaches covers.

• 8) Packs reels and cassettes into containers and labels containers for shipment.