Job Description:

• 1) Tends saddle-stitching machine to repair salvable magazines, comic books, or catalogs in bindery: Picks up book from supply on worktable, opens book, and places book in tentlike position over fixture of wire-stitching machine.

• 2) Examines book to determine location of missing stitch, and positions book under stitching head.

• 3) Depresses pedal to start machine and insert missing stitch.

• 4) Stacks stitched book on worktable for removal.

• 5) Examines wrinkled, creased, or dog-eared pages and cover sheets and separates sheets judged to be salvable and discards remainder of sheets.

• 6) Rolls and bends sheets and smooths with hands and fingers to remove wrinkles and creases.

• 7) Folds repaired sheets by hand and stacks sheets to be returned to binding machines.

• 8) Keeps daily production records.