A professional who tends machine that forms, inserts, trims, and fastens spiral binding in covers of paper goods such as booklets, pamphlets, and notebooks. Responsibilities include:

• Measures guides, using ruler, and positions or adjusts guides to accommodate size of sheets to be bound.
• Tightens setscrews to secure guides in specified position.
• Starts machine.
• 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.
• Stacks bound items on skid.
• Removes broken pieces of wire from machine, using pointed pliers.
• Removes and replaces damaged covers and backs.
• May thread wire into machine.
• 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.