A professional who lays out and stamps lettering and designs manually on tire molds, following blueprints. Responsibilities include:

• Positions and clamps mold on worktable manually or using hoist.
• Reads blueprint to obtain information, such as location and spacing of single letters, words, and designs.
• Applies blue pigment to mold and measures and marks reference lines with protractor, rulers, and scribers to indicate location of specified stampings.
• Positions stamps according to layout lines and hammers stamps to imprint letters and designs in mold in reverse order.
• Inspects impressions with template to verify uniform depth.
• May compute spacing of letters.
• May set up and operate pantograph machine to engrave letters and designs in molds.