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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.

• 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.

• 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.

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