textile technologist
ISCO: 2141. Skills: 48. Essential: 30.
Essential skills
- braiding technology
- check quality of products in textile production line
- conduct quality control analysis
- conduct textile testing operations
- control systems
- control textile process
- convert textile fibres into sliver
- develop specifications of technical textiles
- distinguish accessories
- dyeing technology
- fabric types
- health and safety in the textile industry
- knitting machine technology
- manufacture braided products
- metrology
- oversee yarn characterisation
- properties of textile materials
- quality standards
- research and development in textiles
- seek innovation in current practices
- set-up weft knitting machines
- staple spinning machine technology
- textile finishing technology
- textile printing technology
- textile technologies
- tufting technology
- types of textile fibres
- use sustainable materials and components
- use textile technique for hand-made products
- use weaving machine technologies
Supporting skills
- covert slivers into thread
- design weft knitted fabrics
- draw sketches to develop textile articles
- finish processing of man-made fibres
- manufacture knitted textiles
- manufacture man-made fibres
- manufacture non-woven filament products
- manufacture nonwoven staple products
- manufacture staple yarns
- manufacture texturised filament yarns
- manufacture woven fabrics
- perform data analysis
- plan the web forming techniques for non-woven
- tend textile dyeing machines
- tend textile printing machines
- test physical properties of textiles
- use textile finishing machine technologies
- use warp preparation technologies