A professional who tends automatic machine that cuts and shapes wire or fabric-covered wire to form bars, prongs, and buckle frames. Responsibilities include:

• Adjusts forming head according to product specified, using handtools.
• Positions reel of wire on machine spindle and draws end of wire through guides to forming head.
• Inserts wire against stop and depresses treadle-switch to start machine.
• Observes automatic feeding of wire into machine or holds switch down with foot and advances wire against stop as specified item is cut, formed, and ejected.
• May pull levers of hand-bending machine to shape sample items.