Tire Building Machine Mechanical Specialist
Tire Building Machine Mechanical Specialist: Install, repair, and maintain tire building machinery and systems; Associate’s in Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, or related required; 40 hours/week.
Operate machines such as collapsible drum devices to build pneumatic tires from rubber components, such as beads, ply stock, tread, and sidewalls.
A few of the duties:
1. Depresses pedal to rotate drum and winds specified number of plies around drum to form tire body.
2. Starts rollers that bond tread and plies as drum revolves.
3. Activates bead setters that press prefabricated beads onto plies and position rollers that turn ply edges under and over beads.
4. Depresses pedal to collapse drum and lifts tire onto conveyor.
5. Aligns tread with guide, starts drum to wind tread onto plies, and slices ends.
6. Turns ends of plies under and over beads with steel rod.
7. Positions ply stitcher rollers and drum according to width of stock, using hand tools and gauges.
8. Brushes solvent onto ply to ensure adhesion and repeats process as specified, alternating direction of each ply to strengthen tire.
9. Winds chafers and breaker onto plies.
10. Rubs cement stick on drum edge to provide adhesive surface for plies.
11. Pulls ply from supply rack and aligns ply with edge of drum.
12. Cuts ply at splice point and presses ends together to form continuous band.