Rubber, Plastic and Paper Products Machine Operators

How to become a Plastic Products Machine Operator

Official title: Plastic Products Machine Operators

Plastic products machine operators operate machines that knead and blend plastic raw materials and compounds, or make plastic parts and products.

Main tasks

Operate machines to knead and mix ingredients to make plastics; shape plastic material by moulding, extruding, blowing, cutting and other methods; press plastic into sheets
Encase wire, insulated wire, cables and optical fibre in plastic
Recover waste plastic and reprocess it into plastic material

Average pay: NT$516,000 a year
Demand for Machine operators and assemblers jobs is projected at about 1,647,000 in 2024 and about 1,698,000 in 2030. (+3.1%)
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Average pay is NT$516,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).

Demand for this job family is projected to change 3.1% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026