Job Description:

• 1) Connects coils to terminals and builds up supporting structure of power transformers, according to wiring and structural diagrams: Wraps insulation around coil and secures with adhesive tape.

• 2) Drives fiber wedges between coil and core, using mallet to hold coil around leg of transformer core.

• 3) Crimps leads to magnet wire, using hand or hydraulic crimper and tapes connections.

• 4) Crimps tags to lead wires to conform with wiring diagram.

• 5) Assembles support structure, clamping angles, terminals, tanks, or cabinet panels, using gas or electric welding equipment, welding jigs, tie bolts, nut runner, drill press, and power drill.

• 6) Brazes coil leads to specified tanks of terminal strip.

• 7) May fabricate coils and assemble component parts to build electric power, distribution, or specialty transformers according to blueprints and wiring or structural diagrams.

• 8) Winds copper wire around jig, fixture, or spindle to form primary coil.

• 9) Fabricates secondary coil on copper plate of specified thickness, using drill, calipers, and bandsaw.

• 10) May be designated according to type of transformer assembled as Distribution-Transformer Assembler; Power-Transformer Assembler; Specialty-Transformer Assembler; or by type of core used as Hypercil-Core-Transformer Assembler.