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Overview
The work turns prepared rubber parts into tyre structures by forming bands, setting beads, operating machinery and checking worn or prepared tyres during production.
In job descriptions, look for tyre building machines, rubber components, bead setters, drum devices, solvent brushing, machine monitoring, vulcanization preparation and raw material checks.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Tyre builders work in tyre production, handling prepared rubber components and building them into pneumatic tyre structures. The work can include forming bands, setting beads, operating drum devices, brushing solvent and monitoring machine output before later production steps.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include machine monitoring, mechanics, hand-tool control, rubber-component handling and attention to tyre defects. Some roles include preparation for vulcanization, raw material checks or waste sorting around the production line.
Salary context
Pay context depends on machine responsibility, production pace, defect control and whether the role covers several tyre-building stations. Work that requires setup judgement or troubleshooting carries different weight from a narrow repetitive station.
Career paths
Development can move toward senior machine operation, production quality support, line coordination, maintenance-adjacent roles or rubber product manufacturing supervision. Experience with tyre-building stations and material defects is useful.
Good to know
Check whether a vacancy is about building new tyres, retreading, repair or fitting tyres to vehicles. Tyre builder roles should name production machines, rubber components and factory process steps.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Manufacture, retreading and rebuilding of rubber tyres and manufacture of tubes
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is tyre vulcaniser.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 2
Tire Builders
51-9197.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETTire Repairers and Changers
49-3093.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
22.11Manufacture, retreading and rebuilding of rubber tyres and manufacture of tubes
Alternative labels
Occupation group
rubber products machine operator (8141.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2430774f-d92a-40e4-817d-d03dd5a33207 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 8141.1.7 |
| ISCO group | 8141 |
| Concept type | Occupation |