A professional who operates strapping machine to glue, compress, and dry multiple strands of twisted fiber yarn to form straps used for packaging. Respnsibilities include:

• Hangs cones of yarn on creel and empty spool on winder.
• Turns valves to fill glue troughs.
• Opens steam valves and observes thermometer to heat glue and drying cans to specified temperature.
• Adjusts distance between dies to specified measurements, using handtools.
• Threads strands through tension device, glue bath, compression dies, infrared tacking lamps, around drying can, and through roller and counter to spool.
• Starts equipment and inspects finished strapping for strand separation, thickness, and width, visually or using gauges.
• Cuts out faulty areas and splices cut ends together.
• Replaces full spools on winder.
• Observes creel, replaces emptying cones, and splices ends.
• Repairs breaks in yarn by splicing ends.
• Tags and marks full spools for identification.