A professional who tends machine that winds wire onto drum to form electric heating elements for airplane deicers. Responsibilities include:

• Aligns and tapes precut sheet of fabric on drum of machine.
• Determines location of element parts on fabric and length of element wires, using template.
• Tapes braided wire connections and solders strips to fabric in specified locations.
• Brushes rubber cement on fabric, and threads wire into machine.
• Turns dials to adjust machine that crimps and spaces element wires during winding, and starts machine.
• Cuts element wires to specified length and tapes ends of wires to fabric.
• Verifies length and spacing of element wires with rule.
• Counts number of wires specified for sections of element, and pulls off excess wires.
• Solders parts, such as bus bars and braided connections to element wires, using soldering iron.
• Cuts fabric, containing formed element, from drum of machine, using scissors, and lays element on stockrack.