Weaving machine operator

Code 8152.3

Weaving machine operators set up, operate and monitor weaving machines .They work with specialised machinery, techniques and materials to process threads of yarn into weaved products such as clothing, home-tex or technical end products. They maintain and repair weaving machinery and ensure operations run without problems.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • textile products, textile semi-finished products and raw materials
  • health and safety in the textile industry
  • types of textile fibres

Skills and competences

  • evaluate textile characteristics
  • manufacture textile floor coverings
  • manufacture woven fabrics
  • maintain work standards
  • tend weaving machines
  • control textile process
  • use weaving machine technologies

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