A professional who tends machine that compresses and binds paper, cloth, or other loose materials to facilitate handling. Responsibilities include:

• Trucks or carries materials to baling machine.
• Places materials in compression chamber of baling machine.
• Moves lever or electric switch, causing ram to compress material.
• Threads tie bands around bale and twists or clamps ends of bands to tighten bands.
• Opens compression chamber doors and removes bale from machine.
• May truck bales to storage place, weigh bales, and record weight.
• May line compression chamber of baling machine with paper, burlap, or other covering before baling.
• May sew or tie wrapping in place after baling, and stencil bales.
• May be designated according to material baled as cloth baler; feather baler; metal baler; paper baler; rag baler; tobacco baler; corn-husk baler; hair baler; leather baler; offal baler; scrap baler.