A professional who tends steam-heating equipment that cures rubber in jacketed firehose. Respnsibilities include:

• Lifts precut lengths of specified rubber tubing and braided fabric hose jacket onto table.
• Dusts rubber tubing with soapstone to prevent tubing from sticking to jacket.
• Turns crank to wind tubing onto stock wheel.
• Aligns jacket with mechanical threading device and clamps threading fixture to end of rubber tubing.
• Starts winch that pulls tubing into jacket.
• Lifts and clamps ends of jacketed hose to fixtures on steam lines.
• Presses hose into curing cavities on table that hold hose in flattened position when curing.
• Observes gauges and turns valve to inject steam into hose at specified temperature and pressure for curing.
• Places cured hose on storage rack.