A professional who tends automatic machines that coil, cut, and interlace wire into spiral-weave screen. Respnsibilities include:

• Threads and pulls wire through pulling and coiling dies of machines and secures end around coiling die, using pliers.
• Adjusts distance between dies and speeds of wire feed and pulling-die rotation, according to size of wire and length of spiral weave, using handtools.
• Starts machines, monitors automatic operation and wire supply, and occasionally measures length of weave to verify conformance to specifications, using gauge.
• Stops machines when screens of specified length are woven.