Jobs / Physical work / 51-6064.00
Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Set up, operate, or tend machines that wind or twist textiles; or draw out and combine sliver, such as wool, hemp, or synthetic fibers. Includes slubber machine and drawing frame operators.
- US jobs
- 22,020
- Median wage
- $38,670 a year
- Job family
- Physical work
Can agents do the work of textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Physical work:
- Task levelUnexploredNo benchmark in our collection covers this work yet.
- Project levelUnexploredNo benchmark in our collection covers this work yet.
Unexplored territory
No benchmark in this atlas covers this work yet.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Notify supervisors or mechanics of equipment malfunctions.
- Thread yarn, thread, or fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines.
- Start machines, monitor operation, and make adjustments as needed.
- Inspect machinery to determine whether repairs are needed.
- Record production data such as numbers and types of bobbins wound.
- Replace depleted supply packages with full packages.
- Stop machines when specified amount of products has been produced.
- Inspect products to verify that they meet specifications and to determine whether machine adjustment is needed.
- Tend machines that twist together two or more strands of yarn or insert additional twists into single strands of yarn to increase strength, smoothness, or uniformity of yarn.
- Observe operations to detect defects, malfunctions, or supply shortages.
- Operate machines for test runs to verify adjustments and to obtain product samples.
- Observe bobbins as they are winding and cut threads to remove loaded bobbins, using knives.
Other job titles for this occupation (80)
Back Winder · Cable Operator · Computer Integrated Manufacturing Operator (CIM Operator) · Drawing Operator · Line Operator · Spinner · Spinning Operator · Twister Operator · Winder Operator · Winder Tender · Automatic Beam Warper Tender · Automatic Quilling Machine Operator · Automatic Thread Winder · Automatic Winder Operator · Axminster Rug Setter · Backwinder · Ball Fringe Machine Operator · Ball Warper Tender · Ball Winder · Baller · Balling Machine Operator · Balling Tender · Bandage Winding Machine Operator · Batting Machine Operator · Beam Warper · Beamer · Beamer Hand · Beamer Operator · Beaming Machine Operator · Blocker · Board Winder · Bobbin Doffer · Bobbin Winder · Bonding Machine Setter · Box Tender · Braid Pattern Setter · Calender Wind Up Tender · Carding Machine Operator · Carding Utility Tender · Cloth Doubling Machine Operator · Cloth Reeler · Cloth Winder · Cloth Winder Machine Operator · Coiler · Comb Winder · Comber · Combination Machine Tender · Cone Machine Operator · Cone Winder · Coner · Coning Machine Operator · Cop Winder · Copper · Copping Machine Operator · Core Winder · Covering Machine Operator · Creel Hand · Creel Operator · Creeler · Doubling Machine Operator · Draw Frame Operator · Draw Frame Runner · Draw Frame Tender · Draw Machine Operator · Draw Tender · Drawer · Drawing Box Tender · Drawing Frame Tender · Drawing Machine Operator · Drawing Tender · Dresser Tender · Fiberglass Roving Winder · Finisher Card Tender · Fishing Line Winding Machine Operator · Fly Frame Tender · Foster Winder · Frame Hand · Frame Operator · Frame Runner · Frame Spinner