spinning machine operator
ISCO: 8151. Skills: 29. Essential: 16.
Essential skills
- adjust filament tension
- collect samples for analysis
- cut filament
- ensure health and safety in manufacturing
- maintain equipment
- maintain work standards
- manufacture staple yarns
- measure yarn count
- monitor machine operations
- remove defective products
- resolve equipment malfunctions
- set the operation speed of manufacturing machines
- set up machine controls
- supply machine with appropriate tools
- tend spinning machines
- types of thread
Supporting skills
- conduct textile testing operations
- convert textile fibres into sliver
- covert slivers into thread
- evaluate textile characteristics
- finish processing of man-made fibres
- mechanics
- process man-made fibres
- staple spinning machine technology
- test physical properties of textiles
- textile technologies
- use precision tools
- work in textile manufacturing teams
- wrap yarn around bobbins