Finishing textile technician

Finishing textile technicians perform operations related to setting up finishing processes. The finishing processes are the final series of operations that improves the appearance and/or usefulness of textiles.

Includes people working in the physical or chemical laboratory to ensure error free finishing.

The following job titles also refer to finishing textile technician:

finishing textile supervisor
finishing technician
finishing technicians
finishing department manager
yarn finisher
bleaching textile technician
textile finisher
textile technician for finishing
textile finishing operator
cloth finisher
bleaching machine operator
textile finishing technician

A high school diploma is generally the minimum required to work as a finishing textile technician.

ISCO skill level is defined as a function of the complexity and range of tasks and duties to be performed in an occupation. It is measured on a scale from 1 to 4, with 1 the lowest level and 4 the highest, by considering:

• the nature of the work performed in an occupation in relation to the characteristic tasks and duties
• the level of formal education required for competent performance of the tasks and duties involved and
• the amount of informal on-the-job training and/or previous experience in a related occupation required for competent performance of these tasks and duties.

Finishing textile technician is a Skill level 2 occupation.

These occupations, although different, require a lot of knowledge and skills similar to finishing textile technician.

textile dyeing technician
textile finishing machine operator
printing textile technician
textile dyer
textile printer

These occupations require some skills and knowledge of finishing textile technician. They also require other skills and knowledge, but at a higher ISCO skill level, meaning these occupations are accessible from a position of finishing textile technician with a significant experience and/or extensive training.

textile chemical quality technician
textile operations manager
textile sourcing merchandiser
textile quality technician
textile process controller

This knowledge should be acquired through learning to fulfill the role of finishing textile technician.

• Health and safety in the textile industry: The requirements, rules and applications of health and safety measures in the textile industry.
• Dyeing technology: Processes involved in textile dyeing using different dyeing technologies. Also, addition of colours to textile materials using dye stuffs.
• Textile chemistry: Chemical processing of textiles such as the reactions of textiles to chemicals.
• Textile printing technology: Addition of colour partially, according to the designed pattern, onto textile based materials. Processes for adding coloured patterns onto textile materials using printing machines and techniques (rotary of flat bed screen printing or others, heat transfer, inkjet, etc.).
• Textile finishing technology: Processes used for changing the properties of textile materials. This includes operating, monitoring and maintaining textile finishing machines.
• Challenging issues in the textile industry: The efficiency aims and environmental issues posed by challenges in the textile industry.

These skills are necessary for the role of finishing textile technician.

• Prepare equipment for textile printing: Manufacture screens and prepare printing paste. Use tools and equipment associated with screen printing. Select screen types and mesh for appropriate substrates. Develop, dry and finish screen image. Prepare screens, test screens and printed quality.
• Finish processing of man-made fibres: Completing the processing operation of man-made fibres and ensuring that the product is made according to customer specification
• Maintain work standards: Maintaining standards of work in order to improve and acquire new skills and work methods.

This knowledge is sometimes, but not always, required for the role of finishing textile technician. However, mastering this knowledge allows you to have more opportunities for career development.

• Knitting machine technology: Manufacturing technologies which use loop forming techniques to convert yarns into fabrics in order to form knitted fabrics.
• Nonwoven machine technology: Manufacturing of nonwoven fabrics according to specification. Development, manufacture, properties and evaluation of nonwoven fabrics.
• Research and development in textiles: Development of new concepts through the use of scientific and other methods of applied research.
• Textile technologies: Textile technologies to design, manufacture and evaluate the properties of textiles.

These skills and competences are sometimes, but not always, required for the role of finishing textile technician. However, mastering these skills and competences allows you to have more opportunities for career development.

• Test physical properties of textiles: Evaluate the physical properties of textiles by using testing methods, normally in accordance with a standard. It includes fibre identification and trouble shooting.
• Develop textile colouring recipes: Developing recipes for dyeing and printing processes of textiles.
• Design woven fabrics: Designing and developing structural and colour effects in woven fabrics by using the weaving technique.
• Tend textile finishing machines: Operate textile finishing machines keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.
• Conduct textile testing operations: Prepare for textile testing and evaluation, gathering the test samples, conducting and recording tests, validating data and presenting results.

8154 – Bleaching, dyeing and fabric cleaning machine operators

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References

1. Finishing textile technician – ESCO