The Collar360

Book-sewing machine operator

Other names

thread book sewing machine technician, paper stitching machine technician, thread book-sewing machine operator, paper stitching machine operator, thread book sewing machine operator, thread book sewing machine specialist, book-sewing machine tender, thread book-sewing machine tender, paper stitching machine specialist, paper stitcher, stitching machine operator, book-sewing machine specialist

Clothing, textiles and leather

They run a machine that sews pages together into books and check that it does not jam.

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The work

The work

The tasks come from O*NET (United States) and ESCO (Europe), the world's two occupation databases. How the work is done can differ in Uganda; our team adds the local way where it does.

  1. 1

    Examine stitched, collated, bound, or unbound product samples for defects, such as imperfect bindings, ink spots, torn pages, loose pages, or loose or uncut threads.

  2. 2

    Read work orders to determine instructions and specifications for machine set-up.

  3. 3

    Install or adjust bindery machine devices, such as knives, guides, rollers, rounding forms, creasing rams, or clamps, to accommodate sheets, signatures, or books of specified sizes.

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Sources

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Uganda labour market: UBOS (NLFS 2021, LMS 2025, UNHS, NHRS), ILOSTAT, NDP IV Human Resource Development Plan

Official record

Uganda Bureau of Statistics; International Labour Organization (ILOSTAT); National Planning Authority. Gathered by The Collar360.

UBOS and NPA publications (public); ILOSTAT CC BY 4.0

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ISCO-08, International Standard Classification of Occupations

International classification

ISCO-08 © International Labour Organization.

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ESCO, European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

International classification

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU): free reuse with attribution

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O*NET 31.0 Database

International classification

Includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.

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In other languages

français
opérateur sur machine à brocher/opératrice sur machine à brocher
español
operador de encuadernadoras de cosido/operadora de encuadernadoras de cosido
العربية
مشغل آلة خياطة الكتب / مشغلة آلة خياطة الكتب
português
Operador de máquina para costura de livros/Operadora de máquina para costura de livros
Deutsch
Fadenheftmaschinenbediener/Fadenheftmaschinenbedienerin
italiano
operatore cucitrice filo refe/operatrice cucitrice filo refe

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