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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Set up, operate, or tend machines that wind or twist textiles; or draw out and combine sliver, such as wool, hemp, or synthetic fibers. Includes slubber machine and drawing frame operators. | Notify supervisors or mechanics of equipment malfunctions. | |||
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Start machines, monitor operation, and make adjustments as needed. | ||||
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Tend machines with multiple winding units that wind thread onto shuttle bobbins for use on sewing machines or other kinds of bobbins for sole-stitching, knitting, or weaving machinery. | ||||
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Inspect products to verify that they meet specifications and to determine whether machine adjustment is needed. | ||||
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Tend machines that twist together two or more strands of yarn or insert additional twists into single strands of yarn to increase strength, smoothness, and/or uniformity of yarn. | ||||
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Replace depleted supply packages with full packages. | ||||
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Observe operations to detect defects, malfunctions, or supply shortages. | ||||
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Thread yarn, thread, and/or fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines. | ||||
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Operate machines for test runs to verify adjustments and to obtain product samples. | ||||
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Inspect machinery to determine whether repairs are needed. | ||||
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Place bobbins on spindles and insert spindles into bobbin-winding machines. | ||||
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Tend machines that wind wire onto bobbins, preparatory to formation of wire netting used in reinforcing sheet glass. | ||||
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Record production data such as numbers and types of bobbins wound. | ||||
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Stop machines when specified amount of products has been produced. | ||||
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Study guides, samples, charts, and specification sheets, or confer with supervisors or engineering staff to determine setup requirements. | ||||
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Measure bobbins periodically, using gauges; and turn screws to adjust tension if bobbins are not of specified size. | ||||
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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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Tend spinning frames that draw out and twist roving or sliver into yarn. | ||||
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Unwind lengths of yarn, thread, or twine from spools and wind onto bobbins. | ||||
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Observe bobbins as they are winding; and cut threads to remove loaded bobbins, using knives. | ||||
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Adjust machine settings such as speed or tension to produce products that meet specifications. | ||||
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Clean, oil, and lubricate machines, using air hoses, cleaning solutions, rags, oilcans, and grease guns. | ||||
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Remove spindles from machines and bobbins from spindles. | ||||
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Repair or replace worn or defective parts or components, using hand tools. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Textile Winding Twisting Drawing Machine Setrs Opers Tndrs
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
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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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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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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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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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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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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. | |||
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Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
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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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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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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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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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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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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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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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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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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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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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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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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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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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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Wrist-Finger Speed | The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. | |||
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Speed of Limb Movement | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Speed of Closure | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. | |||
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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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On-the-Job Training | Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Air Twist Operator | |||
Air Twister Winder | |||
Automatic Beam Warper Tender | |||
Automatic Quilling Machine Operator | |||
Automatic Thread Winder | |||
Automatic Winder Operator | |||
Axminster Rug Setter | |||
Back Winder | |||
Backwinder | |||
Ball Fringe Machine Operator | |||
Ball Warper Tender | |||
Ball Winder | |||
Baller | |||
Balling Head Tender | |||
Balling Machine Operator | |||
Bandage Winding Machine Operator | |||
Batting Machine Operator | |||
Beam Warper | |||
Beamer | |||
Beamer Hand | |||
Beamer Operator | |||
Beaming Machine Operator | |||
Blocker | |||
Board Winder | |||
Bobbin Doffer | |||
Bobbin Winder | |||
Bonding Machine Setter | |||
Box Tender | |||
Braid Pattern Setter | |||
Brownell Operator | |||
Calender Wind Up Tender | |||
Carding Machine Operator | |||
Carding Utility Tender | |||
Carpet Yarn Winder Operator | |||
Cloth Doubling Machine Operator | |||
Cloth Doubling and Winding Machine Operator | |||
Cloth Reeler | |||
Cloth Winder | |||
Cloth Winder Machine Operator | |||
Coiler | |||
Comb Winder | |||
Comber | |||
Combination Machine Tender | |||
Computer Integrated Manufacturing Operator (CIM Operator) | |||
Cone Machine Operator | |||
Cone Winder | |||
Coner | |||
Coning Machine Operator | |||
Cop Winder | |||
Copper | |||
Copping Machine Operator | |||
Core Winder | |||
Covering Machine Operator | |||
Creel Hand | |||
Creel Operator | |||
Creeler | |||
Doubler Operator | |||
Doubling Machine Operator | |||
Draw Frame Operator | |||
Draw Frame Runner | |||
Draw Frame Tender | |||
Draw Machine Operator | |||
Draw Tender | |||
Drawer | |||
Drawer In | |||
Drawing Box Tender | |||
Drawing Frame Tender | |||
Drawing Machine Operator | |||
Drawing Operator | |||
Drawing Tender | |||
Dresser Tender | |||
Fiberglass Roving Winder | |||
Finisher Card Tender | |||
Fishing Line Winding Machine Operator | |||
Fly Frame Tender | |||
Forming Machine Operator | |||
Foster Winder | |||
Frame Hand | |||
Frame Operator | |||
Frame Runner | |||
Frame Spinner | |||
Frame Tender | |||
Framer | |||
French Drawer | |||
Gasket Winder | |||
Gill Box Tender | |||
Hanker | |||
High Speed Warper Tender | |||
Hooking Machine Operator | |||
Industrial Twisting Machine Operator | |||
Intermediate Frame Tender | |||
Jack Frame Tender | |||
Jack Spinner | |||
Jack Spooler Tender | |||
Jack Winder | |||
Lace Roller | |||
Lace Winder | |||
Lap Machine Tender | |||
Long Chain Beamer | |||
Long Winder Tender | |||
Loom Doffer | |||
Loom Fixer | |||
Loom Winder Tender | |||
Machine Bobbin Winder | |||
Machine Fixer | |||
Machine Operator | |||
Machine Rope Maker | |||
Manufacturing Assistant | |||
Manufacturing Associate | |||
Manufacturing Operator | |||
Mule Operator | |||
Mule Spinner | |||
Mule Tender | |||
Novelty Twister Operator | |||
Nylon Winder | |||
Open End Spinning Operator | |||
Open Winder | |||
Paint Roller Winder | |||
Paper Twister Tender | |||
Piece Hand | |||
Polishing Section Leader and Machine Setter | |||
Precise Winder | |||
Quill Fixer | |||
Quill Machine Operator | |||
Quill Machine Tender | |||
Quill Reamer | |||
Quill Winder | |||
Quiller | |||
Quiller Hand | |||
Quiller Operator | |||
Quiller Runner | |||
Quiller Tender | |||
Rayon Coner | |||
Rayon Winder | |||
Rebeamer | |||
Redrawer | |||
Reel Operator | |||
Reel Tender | |||
Reel Winder | |||
Reeler | |||
Reeling Machine Operator | |||
Reeling Operator | |||
Respooler | |||
Rewinder | |||
Rewinder Operator | |||
Ribbon Winder | |||
Ring Spinner | |||
Roll Up Machine Operator | |||
Roller Operator | |||
Rolling Down Machine Operator | |||
Rolling Machine Operator | |||
Rolling Machine Tender | |||
Rope Laying Machine Operator | |||
Rope Machine Setter | |||
Rope Maker | |||
Ropewalk Rope Maker | |||
Roping Tender | |||
Roving Changer | |||
Roving Frame Tender | |||
Roving Winder | |||
Rubber Thread Spooler | |||
Section Leader and Machine Setter | |||
Selvage Machine Operator | |||
Sewing Machine Bobbin Winder | |||
Silk Spooler | |||
Silk Winding Machine Operator | |||
Silver Lap Machine Tender | |||
Singe Winder | |||
Skein Spooler | |||
Skein Winder | |||
Skeiner | |||
Sliver Lap Machine Tender | |||
Slubber | |||
Slubber Hand | |||
Slubber Machine Operator | |||
Slubber Operator | |||
Slubber Runner | |||
Slubber Tender | |||
Speed Runner | |||
Speed Winder | |||
Speeder Frame Tender | |||
Speeder Hand | |||
Speeder Machine Operator | |||
Speeder Operator | |||
Speeder Tender | |||
Speeder Worker | |||
Spinner | |||
Spinner Hand | |||
Spinner Operator | |||
Spinner Tender | |||
Spinning Doffer | |||
Spinning Frame Tender | |||
Spinning Machine Operator | |||
Spinning Machine Tender | |||
Spinning Mule Operator | |||
Spinning Mule Tender | |||
Spinning Operator | |||
Spinning Room Worker | |||
Spool Tender | |||
Spool Winder | |||
Spooler | |||
Spooling Machine Operator | |||
Spooling Operator | |||
Staple Processing Machine Operator | |||
Strand Forming Machine Operator | |||
Stretch Box Tender | |||
Stretcher | |||
Stretcher Operator | |||
Stretching Machine Operator | |||
Swift Tender | |||
Take-Up Operator | |||
Textile Draw-Out Machine Operator/Tender | |||
Thread Dresser | |||
Thread Reeler | |||
Thread Spinner | |||
Thread Twister | |||
Thread Winder | |||
Thrower | |||
Tie in Hand | |||
Tie in Machine Operator | |||
Tier In | |||
Trimming Machine Operator | |||
Tube Winder | |||
Twister | |||
Twister Frame Tender | |||
Twister Hand | |||
Twister In | |||
Twister Operator | |||
Twister Tender | |||
Twisting Frame Operator | |||
Twisting Machine Operator | |||
Twisting Operator | |||
Uptwister Tender | |||
Utility Operator Yarn | |||
Warp Changer | |||
Warp Doffer | |||
Warp Drawer | |||
Warp Dresser | |||
Warp Hand | |||
Warp Hanger | |||
Warp Picker | |||
Warp Preparer | |||
Warp Spinner | |||
Warp Splitter | |||
Warp Spooler | |||
Warp Starter | |||
Warp Tier | |||
Warp Tying Machine Tender | |||
Warper | |||
Warper Creeler | |||
Warper Fixer | |||
Warper Tender | |||
Warping Machine Operator | |||
White Spooler | |||
Winder | |||
Winder Contort Operator | |||
Winder Operator | |||
Winder Tender | |||
Winding Machine Operator | |||
Winding Rack Operator | |||
Wool Winder | |||
Yarn Handler | |||
Yarn Rewinder | |||
Yarn Spinner | |||
Yarn Spooler | |||
Yarn Texturing Machine Operator | |||
Yarn Twister | |||
Yarn Winder | |||
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