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. They are employed by textile manufacturing companies.
Profile
Example titles
Doffer
Dyeing and finishing machine loader
Helper - textiles
Textile machine cleaner
Waste machine feeder
Yarn handler
Bale checker - textile processing
Battery loader - textile processing
Beam warper helper - textile processing
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
Carding machine cleaner - textile processing
Chainer - textile processing
Cloth carrier
Cloth offbearer
Cloth turner
Cloth winder
Creeler - textile processing
Doffer
Drying machine helper - textile processing
Drying machine tender - textile processing
Dyeing and finishing machine loader
Dyer helper - textile processing
Felt goods labourer
Felt press machine tender
Filling carrier - textile processing
Floor helper - textile processing
Hand cloth folder
Hand skeiner - textile processing
Harness cleaner - textile processing
Helper - textiles
Hosiery folder
Hosiery tray dryer
Knitted fabric turner
Knitter helper
Labourer - textile processing
Loom cleaner
Loom doffer - textile processing
Machine knitter helper
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
Roller cleaner - textile processing
Roll-mat machine feeder - textile processing
Sample steamer
Scutcher tender
Shuttle filler - textile processing
Slasher operator helper - textile processing
Spool carrier - textile processing
Spool hauler - textile processing
Spun yarn linker
Spun yarn storekeeper
Spun yarn weigher
Textile machine cleaner
Textile machine feeder
Textile machine offbearer
Textile product labourer
Traveller changer
Tubing folder - textile processing
Twisted end finder - textile processing
Warp beamer helper - textile processing
Waste machine feeder
Waste machine feeder - textile processing
Winder cleaner - textile processing
Winding frame cleaner - textile processing
Woollen mill labourer
Yarn handler
Yarn salvager
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
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.
Employment requirements
Some secondary school education may be required.
Additional information
Progression to machine operator positions is possible with experience.
Exclusions
Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing (944)
Supervisors, other products manufacturing and assembly (9227)
Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing (9217)
