A professional who performs following duties in cutting rubberized fabric for tire ply (layer), bead wrapper, and chafer stock. Responsibilities include:

• Conveys fabric and liner rolls to machine area, using handtruck or forklift truck.
• Positions rolls in letoff rack and windup racks, using hoist.
• Threads fabric over guide rolls.
• Tags filled rolls according to type of stock.
• May lift cut plies from bias cutter arm to ply splice table.
• May splice plies by hand for band builder.