Index
Intro
Labourers in textile processing perform a variety of manual duties to assist in processing fibres into yarn or thread, or to assist in weaving, knitting, bleaching, dyeing or finishing textile fabrics or other textile products. They are employed by textile manufacturing companies.
Progression to machine operator positions is possible with experience.
Main Duties
Labourers in textile processing perform some or all of the following duties:
- Load and off-load machines
- Clean textile machines and work areas
- Push carts, trucks, or cans of fibres from one work area to another
- Assist machine operators and other textile workers as required.
Employment Requirements
- Some secondary school education may be required.
All Titles
- bale checker – textile processing
- battery loader – textile processing
- beam warper helper – textile processing
- bleacher helper – textile processing
- bobbin changer – textile processing
- bobbin cleaner – textile processing
- bobbin collector – textile processing
- bobbin processor
- bobbin scraper – textile processing
- bobbin sorter – textile processing
- calender helper – textile processing
- can doffer – textile processing
- carding machine cleaner – textile processing
- chainer – textile processing
- cleaner, textile machines
- cloth carrier
- cloth folder, hand
- cloth offbearer
- cloth turner
- cloth winder
- creeler – textile processing
- doffer
- drying machine helper – textile processing
- drying machine tender – textile processing
- dyeing and finishing machine loader
- dyer helper – textile processing
- feeder, textile machines
- felt goods labourer
- felt press machine tender
- filling carrier – textile processing
- floor helper – textile processing
- hand skeiner – textile processing
- harness cleaner – textile processing
- helper – textiles
- hosiery folder
- hosiery tray dryer
- knitted fabric turner
- knitter helper
- knitter helper, machine
- labourer – textile processing
- labourer, felt goods
- labourer, woollen mill
- loom cleaner
- loom doffer – textile processing
- machine knitter helper
- offbearer, textile machines
- pick remover – textile processing
- pick-pulling machine tender
- piece hauler – textile processing
- rag sorter and cutter – textile processing
- reed cleaner – textile processing
- roll carrier – textile processing
- roll hauler – textile processing
- roll turner – textile processing
- roller cleaner – textile processing
- roll-mat machine feeder – textile processing
- sample steamer
- scutcher tender
- shuttle filler – textile processing
- slasher operator helper – textile processing
- spool carrier – textile processing
- spool hauler – textile processing
- spun yarn linker
- spun yarn storekeeper
- spun yarn weigher
- textile machine cleaner
- textile machine feeder
- textile machine offbearer
- textile product labourer
- traveller changer
- tubing folder – textile processing
- twisted end finder – textile processing
- warp beamer helper – textile processing
- waste machine feeder
- waste machine feeder – textile processing
- winder cleaner – textile processing
- winding frame cleaner – textile processing
- yarn handler
- yarn salvager
Exclusions
- Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing (944)
- Supervisors, other products manufacturing and assembly (9227)
- Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing (9217)