Profession finishing textile technician

Finishing textile technicians perform operations related to setting up finishing processes. The finishing processes are the final series of operations that improves the appearance and/or usefulness of textiles.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Dyeing technology

  Processes involved in textile dyeing using different dyeing technologies. Also, addition of colours to textile materials using dye stuffs.

• Challenging issues in the textile industry

  The efficiency aims and environmental issues posed by challenges in the textile industry.

• Textile finishing technology

  Processes used for changing the properties of textile materials. This includes operating, monitoring and maintaining textile finishing machines.

• Textile printing technology

  Addition of colour partially, according to the designed pattern, onto textile based materials. Processes for adding coloured patterns onto textile materials using printing machines and techniques (rotary of flat bed screen printing or others, heat transfer, inkjet, etc.).

• Textile chemistry

  Chemical processing of textiles such as the reactions of textiles to chemicals.

• Health and safety in the textile industry

  The requirements, rules and applications of health and safety measures in the textile industry.

Skills

• Prepare equipment for textile printing

  Manufacture screens and prepare printing paste. Use tools and equipment associated with screen printing. Select screen types and mesh for appropriate substrates. Develop, dry and finish screen image. Prepare screens, test screens and printed quality.

• Maintain work standards

  Maintaining standards of work in order to improve and acquire new skills and work methods.

• Finish processing of man-made fibres

  Complete the processing operation of man-made fibres and ensure that the product is made according to customer specification.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB