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Insulating tube winder

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

Other denominations:
Convolute tube winder Tube winder Tube winding machine operative Tube winding machine operator Tube winding machine setter Tube winding machine tender Winder, insulating tubes Winding technician

Insulating tube winders set up and operate a machine to wind up insulating tubes and cut them to specified dimensions.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Operating and monitoring machines which knead and blend compounds to obtain plastic materials;
(b) Operating and monitoring machines which shape plastic materials by moulding, extrusion, blowing, cutting and other means;
(c) Operating and monitoring machines which laminate plastics and plastic-impregnated materials or produce fibreglass;
(d) Encasing uncoated wire, cord, cable and optic fibre in plastic;
(e) Examining outputs for defects and conformity to specifications;
(f) Recycling waste plastic materials;
(g) Making artificial eyes and contact lens discs, making and repairing spectacle frames and plastic parts of orthopaedic appliances.

Knowledge

  • Wholesale and retail sales
  • Handicrafts
  • Chemistry
  • Materials (glass, paper, plastic and wood)
  • Textiles (clothes, footwear and leather)

Digital competencies

  • Monitoring quality of products
  • Positioning materials, tools or equipment
  • Working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • Maintaining operational records
  • Repairing and installing mechanical equipment

Digital competencies

  • Using digital tools to control machinery

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts

Professional groups of the occupation

Technicians and associate professionals

Science and engineering associate professionals

Physical and engineering science technicians

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

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

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

117

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

5,94%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-15,22% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

25,64%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

6,84%

Part-time contracts

1,24% Turnover index

291

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-3%

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.

Science and engineering associate professionals

68%

32%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering associate professionals

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

Physical and engineering science technicians

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?

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

No experience
10%
Less than 1 year
11%
Between 1 and 2 years
17%
Between 2 and 4 years
41%
Between 4 and 8 years
4%
More than 8 years
17%
Manufacturing
32%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
28%
Information and communication
9%
Administrative and support service activities
8%
Education
7%
Others
16%

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.