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- NOC 2006 Version 1.0
9441 – Textile Fibre and Yarn Preparation Machine Operators
Textile fibre and yarn preparation machine operators operate machines to prepare textile fibres or to spin, wind or twist yarn or thread. They are employed by textile companies.
Profile
Index of titles Example job titles
- Asbestos rope maker
- Automatic quiller tender - textile manufacturing
- Bale breaker - textile manufacturing
- Bale-breaker tender - textile manufacturing
- Batting machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Beam setter - textile manufacturing
- Beam tier - textile manufacturing
- Beam warper - textile manufacturing
- Beamer - textile manufacturing
- Beamer helper - textile manufacturing
- Blending machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Bobbin stripper - textile manufacturing
- Bobbin winder - textile manufacturing
- Breaker feeder - textile manufacturing
- Card feeder - textile manufacturing
- Card operator - textile manufacturing
- Card stripper - textile manufacturing
- Card tender
- Card tender - textile manufacturing
- Carder - textile manufacturing
- Carding machine feeder - textile manufacturing
- Carding machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Carding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Chopping machine tender
- Comber - textile manufacturing
- Combining and drawing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Cone winder - textile manufacturing
- Cotton ball machine tender
- Covering-machine tender
- Crimp setter
- Crimper
- Crimping machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Doubling machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Doubling machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Drawing machine tender - textile fibre
- Dresser - textile manufacturing
- Fibre classer
- Fibre mixer
- Fibre washer
- Fibreglass roving winder
- Frame spinner - textile manufacturing
- Fur blower - textile manufacturing
- Fur mixer
- Garnett machine tender - textile manufacturing
- High-speed machine warper - textile manufacturing
- Lap machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Lap-winder tender - textile manufacturing
- Lapper - textile manufacturing
- Lapper tender - textile manufacturing
- Line spooler
- Loom-winder tender
- Machine operator - textile fibre and yarn preparation
- Open-end spinner - textile manufacturing
- Opener tender - textiles
- Opening and blending operator
- Picker - textile manufacturing
- Picker tender - textile manufacturing
- Picking machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Picking machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Polisher - textile fibre
- Quill winder - textile manufacturing
- Quiller - textile manufacturing
- Quilling machine tender, automatic - textile manufacturing
- Rebeamer - textile manufacturing
- Redraw operator - textile manufacturing
- Reel tender - textile manufacturing
- Reel winder - textile manufacturing
- Reeler - textile manufacturing
- Reeling machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Respooler - textile manufacturing
- Rewarper - textile manufacturing
- Rewinder - textile manufacturing
- Ring frame operator - textile manufacturing
- Ring spinner - textile manufacturing
- Rope coiler
- Rover - textile manufacturing
- Roving frame tender - textile manufacturing
- Roving machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Rug setter - textile manufacturing
- Rug-yarn-setting machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Scouring machine operator
- Scray machine feeder
- Size maker - textile manufacturing
- Sizing machine tender - textiles
- Skein spooler - textile manufacturing
- Skein winder - textile manufacturing
- Skeiner - textile manufacturing
- Slasher - textile manufacturing
- Slasher operator - textile manufacturing
- Sliver lapper - textile manufacturing
- Slubber tender - textile manufacturing
- Slubber, hand
- Spinner - textile manufacturing
- Spinning frame tender - textile manufacturing
- Spinning machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Spinning machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Spinning operator - textile manufacturing
- Splicing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Spool winder - textile manufacturing
- Spooler - textile manufacturing
- Spooler operator, automatic - textile manufacturing
- Spooling machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Spun yarn doubler - textile manufacturing
- Staple cutter - textile manufacturing
- Staple processing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Stock mixer - textile manufacturing
- Strand-forming machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Stretching machine tender - textile fibre
- Super-draft tender
- Textile spinner
- Textile-twisting-frame operator
- Thread doubler
- Thread spinner
- Thread spooler
- Thread winder
- Twine maker
- Twister operator - textile manufacturing
- Twister tender - textile manufacturing
- Twisting frame operator - textile manufacturing
- Twisting operator - textile manufacturing
- Uptwister operator - textile manufacturing
- Uptwister tender - textile manufacturing
- Warp beamer - textile manufacturing
- Warp dresser - textile manufacturing
- Warp end dresser - textile manufacturing
- Warp spinner - textile manufacturing
- Warp twister tender - textile manufacturing
- Warper - textile manufacturing
- Warper operator - textile manufacturing
- Warper tender, automatic - textiles manufacturing
- Warping operator - textile manufacturing
- Willow operator - textile manufacturing
- Winder operator - textile manufacturing
- Winder tender - textile manufacturing
- Winding machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Winding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Wool batcher
- Wool blender
- Wool mixer
- Wool opener and duster
- Wool scourer
- Wool sorter
- Wool washer
- Yarn doubler - textile manufacturing
- Yarn soaker
- Yarn spinner
- Yarn spooler
- Yarn winder
- Yarn winder tender
- Yarn winder, automatic
- Yarn-plaiting equipment tender
- Yarn-texturing machine tender - textile fibre
- Card tender
- Opening and blending operator
- Slasher operator - textile manufacturing
- Spinning operator - textile manufacturing
- Twisting operator - textile manufacturing
- Warping operator - textile manufacturing
- Wool scourer
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Textile fibre and yarn preparation machine operators perform some or all of the following duties:
- Operate and feed machines that wash, mix, blend, pick, card, lap, comb or draw fibres
- Operate and feed yarn texturizing machines
- Operate spinning or twisting frames
- Operate winding or reeling machines
- Patrol work area to check for broken yarns or product defects
- Tie broken threads
- Investigate machine stoppages
- Notify supervisor or mechanic of equipment malfunction
- May assist with maintenance and minor repairs to machinery.
Employment requirements
- Some secondary school education may be required.
- Several months of on-the-job training may be provided.
Additional information
- Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
- There is considerable mobility among occupations in this group.
Exclusions
- Supervisors, Textile Processing (9216)
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 9 – Occupations Unique to Processing, Manufacturing and Utilities
- Skill level
- C – Occupations usually require secondary school and/or occupation-specific training.
- Major group
- 94 – Processing and Manufacturing Machine Operators and Assemblers
- Minor group
- 944 – Machine Operators and Related Workers in Textile Processing
- Version
- NOC 2006 Version 1.0