A professional who tends machine that winds copper wire around plastic cores to produce intrauterine birth control devices. Responsibilities include:

• Positions core in winding machine.
• Starts machine that winds wire around core to fabricate iud of specified size.
• Removes iud from machine and laces thin wire on bottom to facilitate removal by physician.
• Verifies size of iud, using preset plug gauge and calipers.
• Verifies wire tension, using tensiometer, and turns nuts or setscrews to adjust tension.
• Removes empty spools of copper wire from machine and threads new spools on machine.