A professional who tends machine that binds evergreen and conifer twigs with wire to make garlands and wreath stock. Responsibilities include:

• Places spool of wire on machine feed spindle and threads wire between crimping gears and through guides to wrapping chamber.
• Adjusts meter of measuring device that rings bell as specified lengths of garland are formed.
• Starts machine, inserts ends of twigs into wrapping chamber, and depresses pedal to actuate mechanism that binds twigs into continuous strand of garland.
• Cuts garland to specified length with wire cutters and places them on table or conveyor.
• May bend lengths of garland into circle, twist wire ends together, and tie ribbon bow over wire joint to form wreaths.
• When concerned only with making wreaths, is designated wreath-machine operator.