Profession textile chemical quality technician

Textile chemical quality technicians perform chemical laboratory tests on textile materials and products. They interpret results and support colouration and finishing of textiles.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Investigative
• Investigative / Realistic
• Realistic / Conventional
• Enterprising / Realistic

Knowledge

• Textile technologies

  Textile technologies to design, manufacture and evaluate the properties of textiles.

• Properties of fabrics

  The influence of chemical composition and molecular arrangement of yarn and fibre properties and fabric structure on the physical properties of textile fabrics; the different fibre types, their physical and chemical characteristics and different material characteristics; the materials used in different processes and the effect on materials as they are processed. 

• 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.

• Nonwoven machine technology

  Manufacturing of nonwoven fabrics according to specification. Development, manufacture, properties and evaluation of nonwoven fabrics.

Skills

• Maintain work standards

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

• Conduct textile testing operations

  Prepare for textile testing and evaluation, gathering the test samples, conducting and recording tests, validating data and presenting results.

• Distinguish fabrics

  Distinguish fabrics in order to determine differences among them. Evaluate fabrics based on their characteristics and their application in wearing apparel manufacturing.

• Check quality of products in textile production line

  Check characteristics of textile products like yarns, woven, knitted, braided, tufted or nonwoven textiles, finished cloths, ready-make-garments and determine the product quality along different stages of the textiles or clothing production line.

• Evaluate textile characteristics

  Evaluate textiles and their properties in order to manufacture products in conformity with specifications.

• Distinguish accessories

  Distinguish accessories in order to determine differences among them. Evaluate accessories based on their characteristics and their application in wearing apparel manufacturing.

• Use textile finishing machine technologies

  Use textile finishing machine technologies that enable the coating or laminating of fabrics.

• Measure yarn count

  Be able to measure yarn length and mass to assess fineness of roving, sliver and yarn in different measuring systems.Also able to convert into the various numbering system such as tex, Nm, Ne, denier, etc.

• Control textile process

  Plan and monitor textile production to achieve control on behalf of quality, productivity and delivery time.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB