A professional who operates machines to form cut of copper ingot into wire samples for metallurgical testing. Respnsibilities include:

• Smooths lateral sides of sample with emery wheel.
• Heats sample in furnace to light-red glow.
• Rolls sample into rod by passing rod through rolling machine.
• Coils rod and immerses rod in acid bath to remove scale.
• Tapers end of rod, using hammer.
• Inserts tapered end through selected steel-wire die, and fastens it to powered clamp.
• Depresses pedal to draw rod to specified size through series of dies of decreasing diameters.
• Coils wire to prepare it for metallurgical analysis.