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95105 – Labourers in textile processing and cutting
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. Labourers in textile cutting cut fabric, fur, or leather to make parts for garments, linens, shoes and other articles. Labourers in textile processing and cutting are employed by clothing and textile manufacturers and other manufacturers of fabric products such as leather and fur.
Profile
Index of titles Example job titles
- Bale checker - textile processing
- Battery loader - textile processing
- Beam warper helper - textile processing
- Bias-cutting machine tender - fabric, fur and leather products manufacturing
- 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
- Canvas cutter - fabric products manufacturing
- Carding machine cleaner - textile processing
- Chainer - textile processing
- Cloth carrier
- Cloth cutter - fabric products manufacturing
- Cloth offbearer
- Cloth turner
- Cloth winder
- Cloth-cutting machine operator - fabric products manufacturing
- Cloth-printing machine helper
- Clothing cutter - clothing manufacturing
- Creeler - textile processing
- Cuff-cutting machine tender
- Cutter - leather products manufacturing
- Cutting machine operator - clothing manufacturing
- Die cutter - fabric, fur and leather products manufacturing
- Doffer
- Drying machine helper - textile processing
- Dyeing and finishing machine loader
- Dyer helper - textile processing
- Fabric cutter - fabric products manufacturing
- Fabric marker
- Felt goods labourer
- Felt press machine tender
- Filling carrier - textile processing
- Floor helper - textile processing
- Fur cutter
- Garment marker
- Glove cutter
- Hand cloth folder
- Hand cutter - clothing manufacturing
- Hand cutter - fabric, fur and leather products manufacturing
- Hand leather cutter - leather products manufacturing
- Hand skeiner - textile processing
- Harness cleaner - textile processing
- Helper - textiles
- Hosiery folder
- Hosiery tray dryer
- Knitted fabric turner
- Knitter helper
- Labourer - textile processing
- Leather cutter
- Leather cutter - leather footwear manufacturing
- Leather garment cutter - manufacturing
- Leather harness maker
- Leather marker
- Leather pressman/woman
- Leather rifle case maker
- Leather trunk maker
- Leather-stripping machine tender - leather products manufacturing
- Loom cleaner
- Loom doffer - textile processing
- Machine felt cutter
- Machine knitter helper
- Master pattern cutter
- Mink tail slitter - fur products manufacturing
- Pattern cutter
- 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
- Roll-mat machine feeder - textile processing
- Roller cleaner - textile processing
- Saddle cutter - leather products manufacturing
- Sailcloth cutter - fabric products manufacturing
- Sample cutter
- Sample cutter - fabric, fur and leather products manufacturing
- Sample steamer
- Scutcher tender
- Shoe cutter
- Shoe parts cutter - footwear manufacturing
- Shuttle filler - textile processing
- Slasher operator helper - textile processing
- Slipcover cutter - fabric products manufacturing
- Slitter-rewinder
- Spool carrier - textile processing
- Spool hauler - textile processing
- Spun yarn linker
- Spun yarn storekeeper
- Spun yarn weigher
- Stripping machine tender - leather products manufacturing
- Textile machine cleaner
- Textile machine feeder
- Textile machine offbearer
- Textile product labourer
- Traveller changer
- Trimmer - leather products manufacturing
- Tubing folder - textile processing
- Twisted end finder - textile processing
- Upholstery marker and cutter
- Warp beamer helper - textile processing
- Waste machine feeder
- Waste machine feeder - textile processing
- Welt maker - hat manufacturing
- Welt-trimming machine tender - hat manufacturing
- Winder cleaner - textile processing
- Winding frame cleaner - textile processing
- Woollen mill labourer
- Yarn handler
- Yarn salvager
- Clothing cutter - clothing manufacturing
- Doffer
- Dyeing and finishing machine loader
- Fabric cutter - fabric products manufacturing
- Fur cutter
- Glove cutter
- Helper - textiles
- Leather cutter
- Sample cutter
- Shoe cutter
- Textile machine cleaner
- Waste machine feeder
- Yarn handler
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Labourers in textile processing
- 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.
Fabric cutters
- Place patterns on top of layers of fabric and cut fabric using electric or manual knives, cutters or computer numerically controlled (CNC) cutting devices
- Adjust cutting technique to type of fabric and style of garment
- May cut fabric samples.
Fur cutters
- Cut fur skins in diagonal strips to specified length and shape of pelt using furrier's knives and cutters
- Number pelts to indicate their location on pattern
- May sort or match skins, and may prepare fur samples.
Leather cutters
- Select leather and cutting dies for leather goods and shoe parts according to specifications
- Position leather on cutting bed of machine, maximizing usage according to skin grain, skin flaws and skin stretch
- Operate clicker or punch press to stretch leather
- Operate machine to strip and cut leather or cut single leather skins by hand to make leather products
- May cut leather samples.
Employment requirements
- Some secondary school education may be required.
- Experience as a fabric, fur or leather cutter is required for fabric, fur or leather sample cutters.
- On-the-job training is provided for some occupations in this unit group.
Additional information
- Progression to machine operator or supervisory positions is possible with experience.
- There is little mobility among the different kinds of cutters in this unit group.
Exclusions
- Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing (9413)
- Supervisors, other products manufacturing and assembly (92024)
- Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing (92015)
- Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and milliners (64200)
- Upholsterers (63221)
- Shoe repairers and shoemakers (63220)
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 9 – Occupations in manufacturing and utilities
- TEER
- 5 – Occupations usually require short-term work demonstration and no formal education
- Major group
- 95 – Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities
- Sub-major group
- 951 – Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities
- Minor group
- 9510 – Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities
- Version
- NOC 2021 Version 1.0