Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following tasks to insulate electric cable: Moves rubber strips from rubber mill to extruder machine, using handtruck.

• 2) Feeds rubber strips into extruder machine that sheathes cable with rubber insulation.

• 3) Winds adhesive tape around cable ends to waterproof cable during insulation.

• 4) Guides sheathed cable onto takeoff reel as cable emerges from extruder.

• 5) Clamps fittings onto cable ends and lowers reel into autoclave, using hoist.

• 6) Connects air-pressure hoses and clamps autoclave cover in place.

• 7) Turns valves to equalize autoclave pressure to prevent distortion of rubber sheath during curing period.

• 8) Removes reel from autoclave onto payoff spindle of stripping machine.

• 9) Adjusts slitting knife of stripping machine according to thickness of lead sheathed cable and threads cable beneath knife and spreader attachment.

• 10) Feels stripped cable for lumps as cable emerges from stripping machine and removes lumps with sandpaper.

• 11) Keeps log of cable stripped.

• 12) May be known according to task performed as Reel Tender; Spooler And Coiler; Tuber Feeder.