How do they match: Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

  • Adjust machine heating mechanisms, tensions, and speeds to produce specified products.
  • Confer with co-workers to obtain information about orders, processes, or problems.
  • Inspect products to ensure that specifications are met and to determine if machines need adjustment.
  • Operate machines for test runs to verify adjustments and to obtain product samples.
  • Set up, or set up and operate textile machines that perform textile processing and manufacturing operations such as winding, twisting, knitting, weaving, bonding, or stretching.
  • Stop machines when specified amounts of product have been produced.
  • Thread yarn, thread, and fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines for weaving, knitting, or other processing.

  • Clean production equipment.
  • Clean materials to prepare them for production.
  • Conduct test runs of production equipment.
  • Feed materials or products into or through equipment.
  • Inspect production equipment.
  • Inspect textile products.
  • Install mechanical components in production equipment.
  • Lubricate production equipment.
  • Mount attachments or tools onto production equipment.
  • Operate textile cutting or production equipment.
  • Program equipment to perform production tasks.
  • Record operational or production data.
  • Repair production equipment or tools.