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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Set up, operate, or tend machines that knit, loop, weave, or draw in textiles. | Remove defects in cloth by cutting and pulling out filling. | |||
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Inspect products to ensure that specifications are met and to determine if machines need adjustment. | ||||
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Observe woven cloth to detect weaving defects. | ||||
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Thread yarn, thread, and fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines for weaving, knitting, or other processing. | ||||
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Examine looms to determine causes of loom stoppage, such as warp filling, harness breaks, or mechanical defects. | ||||
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Notify supervisors or repair staff of mechanical malfunctions. | ||||
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Set up, or set up and operate textile machines that perform textile processing and manufacturing operations such as winding, twisting, knitting, weaving, bonding, and/or stretching. | ||||
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Start machines, monitor operations, and make adjustments as needed. | ||||
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Inspect machinery to determine whether repairs are needed. | ||||
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Record information about work completed and machine settings. | ||||
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Confer with co-workers to obtain information about orders, processes, or problems. | ||||
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Stop machines when specified amounts of product have been produced. | ||||
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Clean, oil, and lubricate machines, using air hoses, cleaning solutions, rags, oil cans, and/or grease guns. | ||||
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Operate machines for test runs to verify adjustments and to obtain product samples. | ||||
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Wash and blend wool, yarn, or cloth. | ||||
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Program electronic equipment. | ||||
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Study guides, loom patterns, samples, charts, and/or specification sheets, or confer with supervisors or engineering staff to determine setup requirements. | ||||
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Repair or replace worn or defective needles and other components, using hand tools. | ||||
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Install, level, and align machine components such as gears, chains, guides, dies, cutters, and/or needles to set up machinery for operation. | ||||
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Adjust machine heating mechanisms, tensions, and speeds to produce specified products. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Textile Knitting/Weaving Machine Setters Operators Tenders
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
- Knowledges
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- Abilites
- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
- Alternate Job Titles
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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Hearing Sensitivity | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Related Work Experience | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Automatic Full-Fashioned Hosiery Knitting Machine Operator | |||
Automatic Pad-Making Machine Operator | |||
Axminster Weaver | |||
Belt Weaver | |||
Blanket Weaver | |||
Braid Pattern Setter | |||
Broadloom Weaver | |||
Carpet Loom Fixer | |||
Carpet Weaver | |||
Cloth Weaver | |||
Cloth Wire Weaver | |||
Crochet Machine Operator | |||
Crocheter | |||
Denier Control Operator | |||
Dobby Loom Weaver | |||
Drawing Hand | |||
Drawing in Hand | |||
Drawing in Machine Tender | |||
Emblem Drawer-In | |||
Footer | |||
Fringe Weaver | |||
Full-Fashioned Garment Knitter | |||
Hand Frame Surgical Elastic Knitter | |||
Harness Builder | |||
Harness Placer | |||
Harness Worker | |||
Heddler Tier | |||
Hose Maker | |||
Hosiery Knitter | |||
Indian Blanket Weaver | |||
Jacquard Lace Weaver | |||
Jacquard Loom Carpet Weaver | |||
Jacquard Loom Heddles Tier | |||
Jacquard Loom Weaver | |||
Jacquard Plate Maker | |||
Knitter | |||
Knitter Mechanic | |||
Knitter Operator | |||
Knitting Machine Fixer | |||
Knitting Machine Operator | |||
Lace Weaver | |||
Lacemaker | |||
Latcher | |||
Legger | |||
Levers-Lace Machine Operator | |||
Link Knitting Machine Operator | |||
Link and Link Knitting Machine Operator | |||
Loom Changer | |||
Loom Control Chain Builder | |||
Loom Fixer | |||
Loom Operator | |||
Loop Puller | |||
Looper | |||
Looping Machine Operator | |||
Machine Operator | |||
Manufacturing Assistant | |||
Manufacturing Associate | |||
Manufacturing Operator | |||
Narrow Fabrics Weaver | |||
Needle Felt Making Machine Operator | |||
Needle Loom Operator | |||
Needle Loom Setter | |||
Needle Loom Weaver | |||
Netting Weaver | |||
Pattern Weaver | |||
Pattern Wheel Maker | |||
Patternmaker Helper | |||
Plush Weaver | |||
Quilter Fixer | |||
Rib Knitter | |||
Ribber | |||
Ribbing Machine Operator | |||
Ribbon Weaver | |||
Rug Hooker | |||
Rug Weaver | |||
Sample Hand | |||
Sample Weaver | |||
Seamless Hosiery Knitter | |||
Silk Weaver | |||
Smash Fixer | |||
Smash Hand | |||
Smash Piecer | |||
Smasher | |||
Smasher Hand | |||
Splicer | |||
Surgical Elastic Knitter | |||
Tag Maker | |||
Tape Weaver | |||
Threader | |||
Threading Machine Tender | |||
Tire Cord Weaver | |||
Toeing Stockings | |||
Top Knitter | |||
Topper | |||
Towel Weaver | |||
Transfer Knitter | |||
Tricot Knitter | |||
Tube Knitter | |||
Tufting Machine Operator | |||
Velvet Weaver | |||
Warp Knit Operator | |||
Warp Knitting Machine Operator | |||
Weaver | |||
Weaver Apprentice | |||
Web Knitter | |||
Web Weaver | |||
Webbing Weaver | |||
Winder Operator | |||
Wrap Knitting Machine Operator | |||
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