Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

• Record information about work completed and machine settings.
• Confer with coworkers to obtain information about orders, processes, or problems.

• Program electronic equipment.
• Repair or replace worn or defective parts or components, using hand tools.
• Clean, oil, and lubricate machines, using air hoses, cleaning solutions, rags, oilcans, and grease guns.
• Install, level, and align components, such as gears, chains, guides, dies, cutters, or needles, to set up machinery for operation.
• Thread yarn, thread, or fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines.
• Adjust cutting techniques to types of fabrics and styles of garments.
• Operate machines for test runs to verify adjustments and to obtain product samples.
• Adjust machine controls, such as heating mechanisms, tensions, or speeds, to produce specified products.
• Start machines, monitor operations, and make adjustments as needed.
• Operate machines to cut multiple layers of fabric into parts for articles such as canvas goods, house furnishings, garments, hats, or stuffed toys.
• Stop machines when specified amounts of product have been produced.
• Notify supervisors of mechanical malfunctions.
• Inspect machinery to determine whether repairs are needed.
• Study guides, samples, charts, and specification sheets or confer with supervisors or engineering staff to determine set-up requirements.
• Inspect products to ensure that the quality standards and specifications are met.
• Place patterns on top of layers of fabric and cut fabric following patterns, using electric or manual knives, cutters, or computer numerically controlled cutting devices.

No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (89%).