A professional who operates battery of automatic machines to twist coil in pointed length of wire and form and attach caps and guards to wire to form safety pins. Respnsibilities include:

• Installs cutting and forming dies in machine according to size of pin specified, using handtools.
• Lifts reels of cap and guard metal strip onto feed-reel holders, and locks spring clamps to secure reels.
• Scoops pointed wires into gravity feed hopper and starts machine.
• Observes operation to detect jamming of mechanisms and extracts jammed pin parts, using pick, screwdriver, and pliers.
• Measures sample of completed pins for conformance to specifications, such as length, diameter of wire, size of spring coil, and width of pin, using micrometers and fixed gauges.
• Examines pins for malformation of caps or guards and opens and closes pins to test operation.
• Adjusts guides, tension bars, cams, feeder arms, and stops, and synchronizes moving parts of machine to correct malfunctions.
• Replaces broken or worn cutting and forming dies, using machinist's handtools.