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Career Details :: Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
Description
Operate or tend machines to bleach, shrink, wash, dye, or finish textiles or synthetic or glass fibers.
Experience
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
Education
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Tasks
- Mixes or adds dyes, water, detergents, or chemicals to tanks to dilute or strengthen solutions as indicated by tests.
- Cleans machines and equipment.
- Starts machines and equipment to process and finish textile goods prior to further processing, following instructions.
- Tests solutions used to process textile goods to detect variations from standards, using standard procedures.
- Removes items, such as dyed articles, cloth, cones, and bobbins from tanks and machines for drying and further processing.
- Keys in processing instructions to program electronic equipment.
- Sews ends of cloth together by hand or using machine to form endless length of cloth to facilitate processing.
- Threads ends of cloth or twine through specified sections of equipment prior to processing.
- Mounts roll of cloth on machine, using hoist, or places textile goods in machines or pieces of equipment.
- Observes display screen, control panel and equipment, and cloth entering or exiting process to determine equipment adjustments.
- Adjusts equipment controls to maintain standards.
- Examines and feels products to determine variation from processing standards.
- Soaks specified textile products for designated time.
- Ravels seams connecting cloth ends after processing is completed.
- Weighs ingredient to be mixed together to process textiles.
- Notifies supervisor of equipment malfunctions and coworkers to initiate steps in processing of textile goods.
- Records information, such as fabric yardage processed, temperature readings, fabric tensions, machine speeds, and delays caused by range malfunctions.
- Creels machine with bobbins or twine.
- Confers with coworkers to ascertain information regarding customer orders, process steps to be completed during shift, or reason for delays.
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Important Abilities
- Control Precision
- Visual Color Discrimination
- Arm-Hand Steadiness
- Wrist-Finger Speed
- Problem Sensitivity
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Indoors
- Consequence of Error
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment
Related Majors
| Major | Add to XapPack |
|---|---|
| Facilities Engineering Technology |  [ add ] |
| Industrial Hygiene | [ add ] |
| Industrial/Technology Studies | [ add ] |
| Welding Engineering Technology | [ add ] |
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