9441 – Textile fibre and yarn, hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers
Textile fibre and yarn 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. Hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers trim, scrape, clean, tan, buff and dye animal hides, pelts or skins to produce leather stock and finished furs. They are employed by leather tanning, fur dressing and leather and fur dyeing establishments.
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Ager operator – textile manufacturing
Ager tender – textile manufacturing
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 – hide and pelt processing
Bleacher – textile manufacturing
Bleaching machine operator – textile manufacturing
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 feeder – textile manufacturing
Card operator – textile manufacturing
Card stripper – textile manufacturing
Card tender – textile manufacturing
Carder – textile manufacturing
Carding machine feeder – textile manufacturing
Carding machine operator – textile manufacturing
Carding machine tender – textile manufacturing
Carpet drying machine tender
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 helper
Cloth-printing machine tender
Cloth-printing roller changer
Cloth-processing range tender
Coater operator – textile manufacturing
Coater tender – textile manufacturing
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
Crimper
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
Dryer operator – textile manufacturing
Dryer tender – textile manufacturing
Drying machine operator – textile manufacturing
Drying machine tender – textile manufacturing
Dye mixer
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
Dyer – textile manufacturing
Dye-reel tender – textile manufacturing
Embossing calender tender – textile manufacturing
Extractor tender – textile manufacturing
Fabric dyer
Fabric printer
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 – 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
Jig operator – textile manufacturing
Jigger operator – textile manufacturing
Kettle tender – textile manufacturing
Kier-boiler tender – textile manufacturing
Lap machine tender – textile manufacturing
Lapper – textile manufacturing
Lapper tender – textile manufacturing
Lap-winder tender – textile manufacturing
Latex-coating machine operator – textile manufacturing
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 – 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 – hide and pelt processing
Machine operator – textile fibre and yarn preparation
Mangler tender – textile manufacturing
Measuring machine tender – hide and pelt processing
Mercerizer – textile manufacturing
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
Padder tender – textile manufacturing
Padding machine tender – textile manufacturing
Pad-extractor 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
Picker tender – 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
Presser-threader – textile manufacturing
Printing machine operator – textile manufacturing
Printing 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 operator – textile manufacturing
Screen-printing machine operator – textile manufacturing
Scudder – hide and pelt processing
Shaving machine tender – hide and pelt processing
Shearing machine tender
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
Spinning operator – 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
Spray-coating 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 fibre
Stretching machine tender – textile manufacturing
Strike-off machine tender – textile manufacturing
Super-draft tender
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
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 operator – textile manufacturing
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 dresser – textile manufacturing
Warp end dyer – textile manufacturing
Warp spinner – textile manufacturing
Warp twister tender – textile manufacturing
Warper – textile manufacturing
Warper operator – textile manufacturing
Warping operator – textile manufacturing
Washing machine tender – textile manufacturing
Waxer – textile manufacturing
Weft straightener – textile manufacturing
Willow operator – textile manufacturing
Winder 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
Wring-out machine operator – textile manufacturing
Yarn conditioner
Yarn doubler – textile manufacturing
Yarn dryer
Yarn dyer
Yarn finisher
Yarn mercerizer
Yarn soaker
Yarn spinner
Yarn spooler
Yarn winder
Yarn winder tender
Yarn-drying machine tender
Yarn-plaiting equipment tender
Yarn-texturing machine tender – textile fibre
Yarn-texturing machine tender – textile manufacturing
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Textile fibre and yarn processing machine operators and workers
Operate and feed machines that wash, mix, blend, pick, card, lap, comb or draw fibres and finish yarn
Operate spinning, twisting, winding or reeling machines
Operate a variety of machines to bleach, dye, coat or finish fabric, thread, yarn or 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.
Hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers
Operate machines or use hand and powered cutting knives to remove unnecessary particles from hides, skins or pelts; shave or polish hides; and shear fur or wool hides to produce pelts with hair of specified or uniform lengths
Prepare solutions according to pre-established formulas and immerse hides, skins or pelts to clean, dehair, pickle, dye, oil, tan, soften and preserve
Adjust rotation and mixing action of vats according to state of pelts
Tint or dye furs to enhance natural shades of fur
May maintain and repair vats and other machinery.
Employment requirements
Completion of secondary school may be required.
On-the-job training is provided for periods up to several months, 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 is possible with experience for fibre and yarn preparation machine operators and hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers.
Progression to supervisory positions in textile processing usually requires completion of a college program in textiles, chemistry or a related subject.
There is some mobility among jobs in this unit group.
Exclusions
Master dyers and textile colour technologists (in 2211 Chemical technologists and technicians)
Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing (9217)