Textile Process Operatives
What they do most days?
Cleans and oils machine, detects and reports mechanical faults to technicians.
Stretches, shrinks, brushes, dampens and presses fabric and shears or burns off protruding fabric fibres as required.
Examines colour cards or specifications, estimates quantity of colouring material needed to print or dye fibre and calculates and mixes ingredients accordingly.
Checks quality of completed material, marks any flaws and removes badly damaged sections.
Detects blockages, tangled thread, defective or broken material, and joins broken ends by hand or mechanical knotting.
Replenishes the supply of input fibres, removes and replaces full output packages, cards and spools.
Sets controls, starts machinery and monitors the passage of material processed.
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.