Coil Winder

Pop open the case of a piece of electrical equipment, and when you’ve put the fire out and the smoke clears away, you’ll find many small coils of wire. You see these same tight coils in generators and ducts. A Coil Winder looks upon these twists of wire with a practiced eye, as these are what they deal with all day long.

If you’re a Coil Winder, you’re given a diagram showing where the coils will go in the finished product, and how big those coils should be. If you’re using a winding machine, you gently feed wire into it and adjust the settings to make sure the coils fit the instructions you’ve been given. If you’re winding coil by hand, you twist the wire onto a template and pound it into the proper shape with hand tools. When the coils are wound, you cut them away.

Your work as a Coil Winder is quite precise, and you must follow the instructions carefully. Watching the wire circling around and around can be quite hypnotic, and you must remember to look away from it periodically to avoid becoming entranced.

You test your coils at completion, and record your results. You may also be required to paint or bake your completed coils so they’ll be ready for inclusion into the final product.

If your coiling machine breaks, you’re responsible for fixing it. Any time the machine is down is time you can’t spend doing your job, so you work quickly to make it run with ease once more. Performing periodic maintenance ensures that it doesn’t break down in the first place.