9616 – Labourers in textile processing

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

Index of titles

Example titles

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)