Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that forms, inserts, trims, and fastens spiral binding in covers of paper goods such as booklets, pamphlets, and notebooks: Measures guides, using ruler, and positions or adjusts guides to accommodate size of sheets to be bound.

• 2) Tightens setscrews to secure guides in specified position.

• 3) Starts machine.

• 4) Positions and holds items to be bound inside guide stops of machine and depresses pedal to form, insert, cut off, and crimp ends of spiral binder.

• 5) Stacks bound items on skid.

• 6) Removes broken pieces of wire from machine, using pointed pliers.

• 7) Removes and replaces damaged covers and backs.

• 8) May thread wire into machine.

• 9) May manually start preformed spiral in perforated holes of items to be bound and hold spiral against rubber-covered spindle or wringer-like rollers which twist spiral into remaining perforations.