A professional who tends machines that wind, shape, or finish coiled and flat springs or wire forms to specifications. Respnsibilities include:

• Positions metal or wire blanks or coiled spring on jig press.
• Depresses pedal to lower shaping die that stamps out spring forms, or crimps, hooks, or loops ends of coiled springs.
• Presses and turns spring ends against rotating abrasive wheel to remove burs.
• Drills and taps holes in flat springs, using single-spindle drill press.
• Feeds wire through guides and onto mandrel of lathe-type automatic coil-winding machine that coils series of springs on mandrel.
• Cuts lead-in wire, using handcutters, and removes mandrel.
• Slides loop of flat metal stock over arbor of power-driven spring winder and starts machine to wind metal around arbor to form coiled-flat springs.
• Places retaining ring over wound spring to prevent unwinding.
• Measures springs for conformance to specifications, using gauges and micrometers.
• Inserts springs into holding device of double-disk grinder and places holding device between grinding wheels.
• Starts machine that automatically grinds spring ends.
• Removes springs.
• May be designated according to task performed as automatic-coil-winding-machine operator; double-end-production grinder.