Machine operator, fibre preparation

Fibre preparing, spinning and winding machine operators operate and monitor machines for preparing, spinning, doubling, twisting and winding yarns and threads from textile fibres. They double and twist two or more strands to produce yarn.

• operating and monitoring machines for processing wool waste into yarn;
• operating and monitoring machines for cleaning, carding and combing wool;
• operating and monitoring machines for spinning textile fibres;
• operating and monitoring machines for cleaning and processing textile fibres and producing slivers;
• operating multi-frame drawing machines in which each frame combines several slivers into one to obtain slivers of specified thickness and weight;
• operating and monitoring machines for spinning, twisting, doubling and winding threads and yarns;
• operating and monitoring winding frames for doubling and twisting strands;
• operating and monitoring machines for drawing twisted rovings;
• preparing the required quantities of mixtures for treating textiles and yarns by mixing ingredients such as starch, tallow, resins, soaps and water, and steam-cooking the mixtures for a specified time;
• treating textiles with chemicals to make them waterproof;
• cleaning rollers and cylinders of carding machines to remove wool residues;
• servicing and replacing rubber or leather coverings on metal rollers of various spinning, combing and drawing machines.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Machine operator, fibre preparation
• Machine operator, thread and yarn spinning
• Machine operator, thread and yarn twisting
• Machine operator, winding (threads and yarns)