Cigarette making machine operator
Also known as: cigarette manufacturing machinist, cigarette machine operative, cigarette maker operator, cigarette machine tender, machine operator tobacco processing, cigarette machine maker attendant
About this occupation
Cigarette making machine operators tend cigarette-making machines to encase tobacco in continuous paper rolls followed by cutting cigarettes from roll. They place roll of cigarette paper on spindles and set monogram-printing devices to print brand name on cigarette paper at specified position.
Essential skills and knowledge
- mark differences in colours
- manufacturing of smoked tobacco products
- perform sun-cured methods for tobacco
- separate tobacco shreds by size
- clean waste materials from machines
- be at ease in unsafe environments
- operate monogram-printing device
- assess fermentation levels of tobacco leaves
- variety of tobacco leaves
- fermentation process of tobacco leaves
- administer additives to tobacco
- operate tobacco drying technology
Typical tasks and preparation
From the related US occupation profile Production Workers, All Other (O*NET 51-9199.00). Linked by an official crosswalk: related, not identical; details vary by country.
US median pay: US$40,110 a year (2025), 251,700 employed. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.