A professional who tends machine that attaches spikes to sport shoes, such as football or baseball shoes. Responsibilities include:

• Positions shoe on bed of drill press and lowers drill to ream holes in shoe sole.
• Inserts spike stem through outsole from inside of shoe and places washers on protruding stem.
• Positions shoe on bed of pneumatic ram and lowers ram that clamps and assembles spike to shoe.
• Repeats operations until specified number of spikes are attached to shoe sole.