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Print folding operator

Latest available data: September 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Complex folder/gluer operator Folder cutter operator Folder gluer specialist Folder guillotine operator Folder machine operator Folder machine tender Folder/cutter operator Folder/gluer specialist Folder/guillotine operator Folding machine specialist Folding machine technician Miniture folding operator Miniture folding specialist Miniture folding technician Paper folder machine worker Paper folding machinist Print folding operator Print folding specialist Print folding technician Printing folding machine operator

Print folding operators tend a machine that folds paper and bundles of paper.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Setting up and supervising the operation of automatic binding and finishing equipment;
(b) Binding full, half and limp-bound books, and repairing bindings;
(c) Folding, collating and sewing signatures by machine and hand;
(d) Operating paper guillotines for pre-press and post-press paper cutting and trimming, and programming electronically operated units;
(e) Operating systems to insert printed material into newspapers, magazines and envelopes;
(f) Embellishing printed products automatically and manually;
(g) Operating photographic and electronic reproduction devices.

Knowledge

  • Wholesale and retail sales
  • Marketing and advertising
  • Audio-visual techniques and media production
  • Secretarial and office work
  • Materials (glass, paper, plastic and wood)

Digital competencies

  • Working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • Operating machinery for the manufacture of products
  • Planning events and programmes
  • Maintaining operational records
  • Following instructions and procedures

Digital competencies

  • Using digital tools to control machinery

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Communicating
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts

Professional groups of the occupation

Craft and related trades workers

Handicraft and printing workers

Printing trades workers

Print finishing and binding workers

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Print finishing and binding workers

49

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

17,82%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

4,26% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

40,82%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

42,86%

Part-time contracts

1,40% Turnover index

103

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-9%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Handicraft and printing workers

65%

35%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Handicraft and printing workers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Printing trades workers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Print finishing and binding workers

No experience
7%
Less than 1 year
12%
Between 1 and 2 years
24%
Between 2 and 4 years
43%
Between 4 and 8 years
2%
More than 8 years
12%
Manufacturing
26%
Construction
21%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
15%
Arts, entertainment and recreation
11%
Education
9%
Others
18%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.