Job Description:

• 1) Fabricates bladders used in tire curing presses, performing any of following duties: Brushes rubber cement on ends of skived rubber stock and splices stock into ring shape, using press to fuse ends.

• 2) Removes spliced stock and weighs it on preset scale to ascertain conformance to specifications.

• 3) Places ring in press that forms and cures bladder.

• 4) May place spliced ring in stock preheater to soften it prior to molding.

• 5) Dips cured bladder in water tank to cool it after molding.

• 6) Trims and smooths bladder, using knife, hot knife, and hand buffer.

• 7) Bolts steel fittings, used to attach bladder to curing press, to finished bladder, using handtools.