Profession weaving machine operator

Weaving machine operators set up, operate and monitor weaving machines .They work with specialised machinery, techniques and materials to process threads of yarn into weaved products such as clothing, home-tex or technical end products. They maintain and repair weaving machinery and ensure operations run without problems.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Types of textile fibres

  The variety of textile fibres both natural such as wool and hemp and man-made or synthetic fibers.

• Health and safety in the textile industry

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

• Textile products, textile semi-finished products and raw materials

  The offered textile products, textile semi-finished products and raw materials, their functionalities, properties and legal and regulatory requirements.

Skills

• Use weaving machine technologies

  Operate machines that enable weaving processes turning threads into fabrics. Setup weaving machine programmes for the machine to produce fabrics with the adequate pattern, colour and fabric density.

• Maintain work standards

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

• Tend weaving machines

  Operate weaving machines keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

• Control textile process

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

• Manufacture textile floor coverings

  Produce textile floor coverings by tending machines, sewing parts, and applying finishing touches to products such as carpets, rugs, and made up textile floor covering articles.

• Work in textile manufacturing teams

  Work harmoniously with colleagues in teams in the textile and clothing manufacturing industries.

• Evaluate textile characteristics

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

• Manufacture woven fabrics

  Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture woven fabrics.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB