A professional who tends machine that forms air tubes from rubberized fabric for use in pneumatic airplane de-icers. Respnsibilities include:

• Examines fabric over light for such defects as holes, tears, and fabric misweaves.
• Cuts defects from rubberized fabric strip with scissors, and rewinds strip onto reel.
• Threads specified reels of rubberized fabric and paper gum tape into machine.
• Fills machine dispenser with powdered soapstone and adjusts machine for specified tube diameter, using handtools.
• Starts machine that shapes and seals rubberized fabric into tubular form, dusts tubing with soapstone, and winds tubing on reel.
• Carries loaded reel to storage rack.