A professional who tends machine that pulls and spaces reinforcing wire as it is wound around steel cylinder to make prestressed core for fabricating concrete pipe. Respnsibilities include:

• Pulls wire through machine rollers and clamps it to end of cylinder for subsequent welding.
• Signals winding-machine operator to start machine that rotates cylinder.
• Observes dial indicator and pulls lever on tensioning machine to apply specified tension to wire during winding.
• Signals winding-machine operator to stop rotation of cylinder after specified number of turns of wire.
• Maintains tension on wire until arc welder welds it to cylinder.
• May tend machine that pulls and spaces reinforcing wire by hydraulic power to make prestressed core for fabricating concrete beams.