Knitting machine operator
Code 8152.1
Knitting machine operators set up, operate and monitor knitting machines. They work with specialised machinery, techniques and materials to process threads of yarn into knitted products such as clothing, carpets or rope. They maintain and repair knitting machinery and ensure operations run without problems.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- textile industry
- properties of textile materials
- textile industry machinery products
- textile products, textile semi-finished products and raw materials
- knitting machine technology
- textile technologies
- types of textile fibres
- fabric types
- textile techniques
- textile measurement
Skills and competences
- cut textiles
- manufacture knitted textiles
- manufacture weft knitted fabrics
- ensure equipment availability
- maintain equipment
- maintain work standards
- tend knitting machine
- set-up weft knitting machines
- control textile process
Transversal competences
- work in textile manufacturing teams
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences