Tire Builder Operate machines to build tires.
Tire Builder is Also Know as
In different settings, Tire Builder is titled as
- Buffer
- Recapper
- Retread Associate
- Retread Technician
- Retreader
- Tire Assembler
- Tire Builder
- Tire Retreader
- Tire Technician
- Tread Builder Operator
Education and Training of Tire Builder
Tire Builder is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Tire Builder
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Tire Builder
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Tire Builder
Training Required for Tire Builder
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Tire Builder in different industries are
- Tire Repairers and Changers
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
- Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
- Foundry Mold and Coremakers
- Automotive Body and Related Repairers
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Rail Car Repairers
- Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Insulation Workers, Mechanical
- Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
- Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
What Do Tire Builder do?
- Depress pedals to rotate drums, and wind specified numbers of plies around drums to form tire bodies.
- Start rollers that bond tread and plies as drums revolve.
- Activate bead setters that press prefabricated beads onto plies.
- Inspect worn tires for faults, cracks, cuts, and nail holes, and to determine if tires are suitable for retreading.
- Cut plies at splice points, and press ends together to form continuous bands.
- Align treads with guides, start drums to wind treads onto plies, and slice ends.
- Position rollers that turn ply edges under and over beads, or use steel rods to turn ply edges.
- Position ply stitcher rollers and drums according to width of stock, using hand tools and gauges.
- Build semi-raw rubber treads onto buffed tire casings to prepare tires for vulcanization in recapping or retreading processes.
- Wind chafers and breakers onto plies.
- Pull plies from supply racks, and align plies with edges of drums.
- Roll camelbacks onto casings by hand, and cut camelbacks, using knives.
- Clean and paint completed tires.
- Fit inner tubes and final layers of rubber onto tires.
- Rub cement sticks on drum edges to provide adhesive surfaces for plies.
- Fill cuts and holes in tires, using hot rubber.
- Brush or spray solvents onto plies to ensure adhesion, and repeat process as specified, alternating direction of each ply to strengthen tires.
- Roll hand rollers over rebuilt casings, exerting pressure to ensure adhesion between camelbacks and casings.
- Measure tires to determine mold size requirements.
- Depress pedals to collapse drums after processing is complete.
- Trim excess rubber and imperfections during retreading processes.
- Place tires into molds for new tread.
- Buff tires according to specifications for width and undertread depth.
Qualities of Good Tire Builder
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Tire Builder
- Adjustable handwrenches
- Automatic tire building machines TBM
- Bead flipping machines
- Bead setters
- Belt conveyors
- Beta thickness gauges
- Calendering machines
- Common industrial protocol CIP software
- Curing presses
- Floor scales
- Guillotine cutters
- Hydraulic presses
- Manual tire building machines TBM
- Mechanical presses
- Mill feed conveyors
- Paint brushes
- Power saws
- Programmable automation controllers PAC
- Robotic assembly machines
- Rubber slab cutters
- Screw-type extruders
- Steel rods
- Tire band building machines
- Tire building drums
- Tire building machines
- Tire stitchers
- Transfer rings
- Tread servicers
- Utility knives
- Wheel balancers
- X ray inspection machines
Technology Skills required for Tire Builder
- IBM Lotus Notes
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Word
- Programmable logic controller PLC software
- SAP software
- Web browser software
- Word processing software