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94130 – Textile fibre and yarn, hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers
Textile fibre and yarn, hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers operate machines to prepare textile fibres; spin, wind or twist yarn or thread; and bleach, dye or finish yarn, thread, cloth or textile products. They are employed by textile manufacturing companies.
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Index of titles Example job titles
- Aging machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Aging machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Asbestos rope maker
- Autoclave tender - textile manufacturing
- Automatic quiller tender - textile manufacturing
- Automatic spooler operator - textile manufacturing
- Automatic warper tender - textile manufacturing
- Automatic yarn winder
- Back tender - cloth printing
- Bale breaker - textile manufacturing
- Bale-breaker tender - textile manufacturing
- Batch dyer - textile manufacturing
- Bater - hide and pelt processing
- Batting machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Beam dyer - textile manufacturing
- Beam setter - textile manufacturing
- Beam tier - textile manufacturing
- Beam warper - textile manufacturing
- Beamer - hide and pelt processing
- Beamer - textile manufacturing
- Beamhouse worker - hide and pelt processing
- Beating machine tender
- Beating machine tender - hide and pelt processing
- Bleacher - textile manufacturing
- Bleaching machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Bleaching range operator
- Bleaching range operator - textile manufacturing
- Blending machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Boarder - textile manufacturing
- Boarding machine tender - hide and pelt processing
- Boarding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Bobbin dryer - textile manufacturing
- Bobbin stripper - textile manufacturing
- Bobbin winder - textile manufacturing
- Boiler - textile manufacturing
- Bonding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Bowker - textile manufacturing
- Breaker feeder - textile manufacturing
- Breaker tender - textile manufacturing
- Brush machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Brusher and shearer - textile manufacturing
- Brushing machine operator - hide and pelt processing
- Brushing operator - textile manufacturing
- Burnisher - hide and pelt processing
- Calender operator - textile manufacturing
- Calendering machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Can tender
- Carbonizer tender - textile manufacturing
- Card stripper - textile manufacturing
- Carder - textile manufacturing
- Carding machine feeder - textile manufacturing
- Carding machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Carding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Carpet drying machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Centrifugal extractor - textile manufacturing
- Centrifuge operator - textile manufacturing
- Chenille tender - textile manufacturing
- Chopping machine tender
- Clipping machine tender
- Cloth bleacher
- Cloth dryer
- Cloth dyer
- Cloth finisher
- Cloth mercerizer operator
- Cloth neutralizer
- Cloth printer
- Cloth shade maker
- Cloth shader
- Cloth shrinker
- Cloth steamer
- Cloth stretcher-dryer tender
- Cloth washer - textile manufacturing
- Cloth-bleaching range tender
- Cloth-doubling machine operator
- Cloth-dyeing range tender
- Cloth-finishing range operator
- Cloth-neutralizing and cloth-rinsing machine operator
- Cloth-printing machine tender
- Cloth-printing roller changer
- Cloth-processing range tender
- Coating and embossing unit operator - textile manufacturing
- Coating machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Coating machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Colour mixer - textile manufacturing
- Colourer tender - hide and pelt processing
- Colourist - textile manufacturing
- Combed sliver dyer - textile manufacturing
- Comber - textile manufacturing
- Combining and drawing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Conditioner tender - textile manufacturing
- Cone winder - textile manufacturing
- Continuous dyeing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Continuous felt dryer operator - textile manufacturing
- Continuous press tender - textile manufacturing
- Cotton ball machine tender
- Covering-machine tender
- Crabber - textile manufacturing
- Crabbing machine tender
- Crabbing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Crimp setter
- Crimping machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Cropping machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Cutting and printing machine set-up operator - textile manufacturing
- Decating machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Dehairing machine operator - hide and pelt processing
- Doubling machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Doubling machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Drawing machine tender - textile fibre
- Dressed hide and pelt finisher
- Dresser - textile manufacturing
- Dry cans operator - textile manufacturing
- Dryer - textile manufacturing
- Drying machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Drying machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Drying machine tender - textile processing
- Dye mixer
- Dye-range operator
- Dye-reel tender - textile manufacturing
- Dyeing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Dyeing range operator - textile manufacturing
- Dyeing tub tender - textile manufacturing
- Dyeing vat operator - textile manufacturing
- Dyeing worker - textile manufacturing
- Dyer - textile manufacturing
- Embossing calender tender - textile manufacturing
- Extractor tender - textile manufacturing
- Fabric dyer
- Fabric-printing machine operator
- Felt dryer - textile manufacturing
- Fibre classer
- Fibre mixer
- Fibre washer
- Fibreglass roving winder
- Finisher - textile manufacturing
- Finishing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Finishing range operator
- Finishing range operator - textile manufacturing
- Fleecer - textile manufacturing
- Fleecing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Fleecing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Fleshing machine tender - hide and pelt processing
- Flocking machine tender
- Folding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Frame spinner - textile manufacturing
- Fuller - textile manufacturing
- Fulling machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Fulling mill operator - textile manufacturing
- Fur blender
- Fur blower - textile manufacturing
- Fur dresser - hide and pelt processing
- Fur floor worker - hide and pelt processing
- Fur mixer
- Fur pelt dresser - hide and pelt processing
- Fur plucker - hide and pelt processing
- Fur-shaving machine tender - hide and pelt processing
- Furskin dresser - hide and pelt processing
- Garment steamer tender
- Garnett machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Gig machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Glass fibre dyer - textile manufacturing
- Graining machine operator - tannery
- Hand flesher - hide and pelt processing
- Hand screen printer - textile manufacturing
- Hand slubber
- Heat curer - textile manufacturing
- Hide and pelt processing worker
- Hide and skin preparer
- Hide fluffer - hide and pelt processing
- Hide parer - hide and pelt processing
- Hide processing worker
- Hide stretcher
- High-speed machine warper - textile manufacturing
- Hosiery boarder
- Jigger operator - textile manufacturing
- Kettle tender - textile manufacturing
- Kier-boiler tender - textile manufacturing
- Lap machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Lap-winder tender - textile manufacturing
- Lapper - textile manufacturing
- Lapper tender - textile manufacturing
- Latex-coating machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Leather buffer
- Leather buffer - hide and pelt processing
- Leather dyer - hide and pelt processing
- Leather measurer - hide and pelt processing
- Leather polisher - hide and pelt processing
- Leather sander - hide and pelt processing
- Leather shaver - hide and pelt processing
- Leather stainer - hide and pelt processing
- Leather stretcher
- Leather stretcher - hide and pelt processing
- Leather tanner
- Limer - hide and pelt processing
- Line spooler
- Loom-winder tender
- Lusterer - textile manufacturing
- Machine flesher - hide and pelt processing
- Machine operator - textile fibre, yarn, hide and pelt processing
- Mangler tender - textile manufacturing
- Measuring machine tender - hide and pelt processing
- Mercerizer machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Napper - textile manufacturing
- Napper operator - textile manufacturing
- Napper tender - textile manufacturing
- Naps teaseller - textile manufacturing
- Neutralizer - textile manufacturing
- Open-end spinner - textile manufacturing
- Opener tender - textile manufacturing
- Opening and blending operator - textile manufacturing
- Pad-extractor tender - textile manufacturing
- Padder tender - textile manufacturing
- Padding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Pelt dresser
- Pelt dyer - hide and pelt processing
- Pelt processing worker
- Pelt shearer
- Pelt stretcher - hide and pelt processing
- Picker - textile manufacturing
- Picking machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Picking machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Pickler - hide and pelt processing
- Pile fabric finisher
- Pile-finishing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Pleater - textile manufacturing
- Poler - textile manufacturing
- Polisher - textile fibre
- Prepared hide and pelt dresser
- Presser and threader - textile manufacturing
- Printing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Quill winder - textile manufacturing
- Quiller - textile manufacturing
- Raw stock dryer - textile manufacturing
- Raw stock dyer - 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
- Rinser - textile manufacturing
- Roller machine tender - tannery
- Roller printer - textile manufacturing
- Rope coiler
- Rotogravure press operator - textile manufacturing
- Rover - textile manufacturing
- Roving frame tender - textile manufacturing
- Roving machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Rubber and vinyl coater operator - textile manufacturing
- Rubber-coating and vinyl-coating machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Rug setter - textile manufacturing
- Rug-coating machine operator
- Rug-yarn-setting machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Sample printer - textile manufacturing
- Saturator - textile manufacturing
- Scouring machine operator
- Scray machine feeder
- Screen-printing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Scudder - hide and pelt processing
- Shaving machine tender
- Shaving machine tender - hide and pelt processing
- Shearing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Shrinking machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Silk-screen printing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Singeing and boiling machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Size maker - textile manufacturing
- Sizing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- 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
- Spinner - textile manufacturing
- Spinning frame tender - textile manufacturing
- Spinning machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Spinning machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Splicing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Splitter - hide and pelt processing
- Sponge-range operator - textile manufacturing
- Spool winder - textile manufacturing
- Spooler - textile manufacturing
- Spooling machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Spraying machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Spun yarn doubler - textile manufacturing
- Staple cutter - textile manufacturing
- Staple processing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Steam cabinet operator - textile manufacturing
- Steam sponger - textile manufacturing
- Steamer tender - textile manufacturing
- Stender tender
- Stock mixer - textile manufacturing
- Strand-forming machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Stretching machine operator - hide and pelt processing
- Stretching machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Strike-off machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Super-draft tender
- Tanner
- Tanner - hide and pelt processing
- Tannery vatman/woman
- Tanning solution preparer
- Tape-folding machine tender
- Tar machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Tension drying machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Tenter machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Tenterframe tender
- Textile colourist
- Textile dyer
- Textile fleecer - textile manufacturing
- Textile napper - textile manufacturing
- Textile printer
- Textile product bleacher
- Textile spinner
- Textile washer
- Textile wringer
- Textile-dyeing and finishing machine operator
- Textile-twisting-frame operator
- Texturing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Thread doubler
- Thread spinner
- Thread spooler
- Thread winder
- Top dyer - textile manufacturing
- Tumbler tender - textile manufacturing
- Twine dyer
- Twine maker
- Twine-cropping machine tender
- Twine-shearing machine tender
- 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 dyer - textile manufacturing
- Warp spinner - textile manufacturing
- Warp twister tender - textile manufacturing
- Warper - textile manufacturing
- Warper operator - textile manufacturing
- Washing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Waxer - textile manufacturing
- Weft straightener - textile manufacturing
- Willow 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
- Wringer operator - textile manufacturing
- Wringer tender - textile manufacturing
- Yarn conditioner
- Yarn doubler - textile manufacturing
- Yarn dryer
- Yarn dyer
- Yarn finisher
- Yarn mercerizer
- Yarn soaker
- Yarn spinner
- Yarn spooler
- Yarn winder tender
- Yarn-drying machine tender
- Yarn-plaiting equipment tender
- Yarn-texturing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Autoclave tender - textile manufacturing
- Bleaching range operator - textile manufacturing
- Calender operator - textile manufacturing
- Carding machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Dyeing range operator - textile manufacturing
- Fabric-printing machine operator
- Finishing range operator - textile manufacturing
- Leather buffer - hide and pelt processing
- Leather stretcher - hide and pelt processing
- Tanner - hide and pelt processing
- Twisting operator - textile manufacturing
- Yarn doubler - textile manufacturing
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Textile fibre, yarn, hide and pelt processing machine operators
- Operate and feed machines that wash, mix, blend, pick, card, lap, comb, draw or finish fibers, yarns, hides or pelts
- Operate spinning, twisting, winding or reeling machines
- Operate a variety of machines to clean, bleach, dye, coat or finish fabric, thread, yarn, hide, pelt and other textile products
- Mix dyes or chemicals according to established formulas
- Operate machinery to print designs onto textile products
- Oversee work area, examine products for defects and ensure adherence to quality standards
- Investigate machine stoppages and notify supervisor or mechanic in the event of equipment malfunction
- May set up machines and assist with maintenance and minor repairs to machinery.
Textile, hide and pelt dyeing and finishing machine operators
- Set up machines for proper processing
- Operate machines to bleach, dye, coat and finish fabric, thread, other textile products, hide or pelt
- Operate machines to print designs onto textile products or hide
- Examine products for defects and ensure adherence to quality standards
- Mix dyes and chemicals according to established formulas
- Notify supervisors and mechanics of equipment malfunctions.
Employment requirements
- Completion of secondary school may be required.
- On-the-job training is provided for several weeks, depending on the complexity of the process and the number of machines operated.
Additional information
- Progression is possible within the group to operate more complex dye ranges and textile printing equipment.
- Progression to supervisory positions in textile processing usually requires completion of a college program in textiles, chemistry or a related subject.
- Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience for fibre and yarn preparation machine operators and hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers.
- There is some mobility among jobs in this unit group.
Exclusions
- Master dyer - textiles; Textile colour technologist (in 22100 Chemical technologists and technicians)
- Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing (92015)
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 9 – Occupations in manufacturing and utilities
- TEER
- 4 – Occupations usually require a secondary school diploma; or several weeks of on-the-job training
- Major group
- 94 – Machine operators, assemblers and inspectors in processing, manufacturing and printing
- Sub-major group
- 941 – Processing and manufacturing machine operators and related production workers
- Minor group
- 9413 – Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing
- Version
- NOC 2021 Version 1.0