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Textile Process Operatives

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About this career

£23,997

Median salary

New workers start around £15,170.01. Normal pay is £23,997 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £34,860.55.
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Jobs

Subjects achieved a 100% pass rate, including Maths, Further Maths, Physics, English Literature and Spanish.

Daily Tasks

  • Cleans and oils machine, detects and reports mechanical faults to technicians.
  • Stretches, shrinks, brushes, dampens and presses fabric and shears or burns off protruding fabric fibres as required.
  • Examines colour cards or specifications, estimates quantity of colouring material needed to print or dye fibre and calculates and mixes ingredients accordingly.
  • Checks quality of completed material, marks any flaws and removes badly damaged sections.
  • Detects blockages, tangled thread, defective or broken material, and joins broken ends by hand or mechanical knotting.
  • Replenishes the supply of input fibres, removes and replaces full output packages, cards and spools.
  • Sets controls, starts machinery and monitors the passage of material processed.

Skills

Job postings

Learning Strategies
52
Monitoring
52
Active Learning
49
Critical Thinking
46
Active Listening
42
Reading Comprehension
40
Speaking
36
Writing
32
Science
27
Mathematics
23