Profession textile dyeing technician

Textile dyeing technicians perform operations related to setting up dyeing processes.

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.

• Health and safety in the textile industry

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

• Textile chemistry

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

• Textile finishing technology

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

• 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.).

Skills

• Maintain work standards

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

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB