Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that pulls and spaces reinforcing wire as it is wound around steel cylinder to make prestressed core for fabricating concrete pipe: Pulls wire through machine rollers and clamps it to end of cylinder for subsequent welding.

• 2) Signals WINDING-MACHINE OPERATOR to start machine that rotates cylinder.

• 3) Observes dial indicator and pulls lever on tensioning machine to apply specified tension to wire during winding.

• 4) Signals WINDING-MACHINE OPERATOR to stop rotation of cylinder after specified number of turns of wire.

• 5) Maintains tension on wire until WELDER, ARC welds it to cylinder.

• 6) May tend machine that pulls and spaces reinforcing wire by hydraulic power to make prestressed core for fabricating concrete beams.