Textile Processing Machine Operators
Job description
Machine Operators and Textile Fibre and Yarn Processors operate machines that spin and twist yarn and thread. These individuals bleach, dye, or finish various textile products (yarns, fabrics, etc.). They work in textile manufacturing plants.
Machine Operators and Leather and Hide Processors process and dye animal hides and skins to make leather and furs. They are employed by tanneries and establishments that dress and dye leather and fur.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Hazardous chemical
- Nontoxic dust
- Humidity
- Noise
- Fire, steam, hot surfaces
Main tasks
Fibre and Yarn Processing Machine Operators and Workers
- Operate and feed machines that wash and process wool fibres and yarns.
- Bleach, dye, dress, and finish fabrics, yarns, and threads.
- Mix dyes or chemicals according to prescribed formulas.
- Print patterns on textile products.
- Monitor work areas.
- Examine finished products to detect defects and ensure compliance with standards.
- Investigate causes of machine breakdown and report failures.
- Set up, maintain, and repair machinery as required.
Machine Operators and Leather and Hide Processing Workers
- Operate machines or knives that remove unnecessary particles from leather and hides.
- Shave or polish skins and trim furs to hair length according to instructions.
- Dip hides in solutions to clean, tan, soften, and preserve them.
- Tint or dye furs.
- Adjust, maintain, and repair tanks and machinery, as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience or additional training may lead to senior or supervisory positions.
- There is some mobility between jobs in this group.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
1,500
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 36.1% Female
- 63.9% Male
Not available.
- 36.1% Female
- 63.9% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$40,400
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 313, 314, 315, 31650% of jobs
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NAICS 3235% of jobs
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NAICS 3265% of jobs
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NAICS 415% of jobs
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NAICS 324, 3255% of jobs
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Others30% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 313, 314, 315, 31650% of jobs
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NAICS 3235% of jobs
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NAICS 3265% of jobs
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NAICS 415% of jobs
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NAICS 324, 3255% of jobs
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Others30% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
WAP
This occupation is targeted by Workplace Apprenticeship Programs
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Operations and control
Abilities
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-arm stability
- Control accuracy
- Near vision
- Limb coordination
- Digital dexterity
- Core strength
- Reaction time
Knowledge and attributes
- Critical thinking
- Focussed on results
- Autonomy
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Versatility
- Rigour
- Respect standards and regulations
- Assiduity and punctuality
- Sense of observation
Interests
- Make, build, install
- Work manually
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Official name of the NOC 94130
Textile fibre and yarn, hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers
Job titles
- Textile Product Preparation Machine Operators
- Operators of Spinning Machines
- Blending machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Spooling machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Dryer - textile manufacturing
- Yarn-drying machine tender
- Hide and pelt processing worker
- Back tender - cloth printing
- Naps teaseller - textile manufacturing
- Leather stainer - hide and pelt processing
- Dresser - textile manufacturing
- Cloth finisher
- Warp dresser - textile manufacturing
- Prepared hide and pelt dresser
- Yarn finisher
- Fur dresser - hide and pelt processing
- Fur pelt dresser - hide and pelt processing
- Pelt dresser
- Pile fabric finisher
- Sliver lapper - textile manufacturing
- Wool batcher
- Beam tier - textile manufacturing
- Rover - textile manufacturing
- Wool opener and duster
- Picker - textile manufacturing
- Bleacher - textile manufacturing
- Cloth bleacher
- Textile product bleacher
- Spooler - textile manufacturing
- Skein spooler - textile manufacturing
- Spool winder - textile manufacturing
- Cone winder - textile manufacturing
- Rope coiler
- Rug setter - textile manufacturing
- Thread spooler
- Line spooler
- Fibreglass roving winder
- Hand slubber
- Brusher and shearer - textile manufacturing
- Quill winder - textile manufacturing
- Carder - textile manufacturing
- Cloth-printing roller changer
- Waxer - textile manufacturing
- Fibre classer
- Colourist - textile manufacturing
- Textile colourist
- Rotogravure press operator - textile manufacturing
- Asbestos rope maker
- Staple cutter - textile manufacturing
- Machine flesher - hide and pelt processing
- Bobbin stripper - textile manufacturing
- Card stripper - textile manufacturing
- Scudder - hide and pelt processing
- Leather shaver - hide and pelt processing
- Reeler - textile manufacturing
- Hide fluffer - hide and pelt processing
- Hand flesher - hide and pelt processing
- Fur plucker - hide and pelt processing
- Slasher - textile manufacturing
- Beamer - textile manufacturing
- Warp beamer - textile manufacturing
- Textile wringer
- Leather stretcher
- Pelt stretcher - hide and pelt processing
- Hide stretcher
- Twine maker
- Spinner - textile manufacturing
- Frame spinner - textile manufacturing
- Warp spinner - textile manufacturing
- Textile spinner
- Thread spinner
- Open-end spinner - textile manufacturing
- Ring spinner - textile manufacturing
- Finisher - textile manufacturing
- Dressed hide and pelt finisher
- Boarder - textile manufacturing
- Hosiery boarder
- Fuller - textile manufacturing
- Hand screen printer - textile manufacturing
- Roller printer - textile manufacturing
- Sample printer - textile manufacturing
- Cloth printer
- Textile printer
- Fleecer - textile manufacturing
- Textile fleecer - textile manufacturing
- Cloth washer - textile manufacturing
- Fibre washer
- Wool washer
- Wool scourer
- Textile washer
- Skeiner - textile manufacturing
- Polisher - textile fibre
- Lusterer - textile manufacturing
- Leather polisher - hide and pelt processing
- Mangler tender - textile manufacturing
- Fibre mixer
- Yarn mercerizer
- Leather measurer - hide and pelt processing
- Lapper - textile manufacturing
- Cloth shade maker
- Fur blender
- Bleaching range operator
- Finishing range operator
- Cloth-finishing range operator
- Dye-range operator
- Steam cabinet operator - textile manufacturing
- Slasher operator - textile manufacturing
- Wringer operator - textile manufacturing
- Stretching machine operator - hide and pelt processing
- Redraw operator - textile manufacturing
- Warper operator - textile manufacturing
- Coating and embossing unit operator - textile manufacturing
- Dyeing vat operator - textile manufacturing
- Roving machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Willow operator - textile manufacturing
- Winding machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Automatic spooler operator - textile manufacturing
- Reeling machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Brushing operator - textile manufacturing
- Calender operator - textile manufacturing
- Carding machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Centrifuge operator - textile manufacturing
- Ring frame operator - textile manufacturing
- Twisting frame operator - textile manufacturing
- Textile-twisting-frame operator
- Cloth neutralizer
- Neutralizer - textile manufacturing
- Doubling machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Fulling machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Graining machine operator - tannery
- Jigger operator - textile manufacturing
- Machine operator - textile fibre, yarn, hide and pelt processing
- Picking machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Brushing machine operator - hide and pelt processing
- Steam sponger - textile manufacturing
- Cloth-doubling machine operator
- Dehairing machine operator - hide and pelt processing
- Rubber and vinyl coater operator - textile manufacturing
- Rug-coating machine operator
- Rug-yarn-setting machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Printing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Fabric-printing machine operator
- Fleecing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Mercerizer machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Cloth mercerizer operator
- Sponge-range operator - textile manufacturing
- Continuous dyeing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Coating machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Latex-coating machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Screen-printing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Bleaching machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Gig machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Spinning machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Finishing machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Scouring machine operator
- Shrinking machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Drying machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Textile-dyeing and finishing machine operator
- Aging machine operator - textile manufacturing
- Twisting operator - textile manufacturing
- Uptwister operator - textile manufacturing
- Continuous felt dryer operator - textile manufacturing
- Dry cans operator - textile manufacturing
- Warper - textile manufacturing
- Beam warper - textile manufacturing
- High-speed machine warper - textile manufacturing
- Opener tender - textile manufacturing
- Bale breaker - textile manufacturing
- Conditioner tender - textile manufacturing
- Kier-boiler tender - textile manufacturing
- Breaker tender - textile manufacturing
- Autoclave tender - textile manufacturing
- Fleshing machine tender - hide and pelt processing
- Cloth stretcher-dryer tender
- Sizing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Wringer tender - textile manufacturing
- Stretching machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Drawing machine tender - textile fibre
- Extractor tender - textile manufacturing
- Automatic warper tender - textile manufacturing
- Beating machine tender
- Slubber tender - textile manufacturing
- Brush machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Embossing calender tender - textile manufacturing
- Automatic quiller tender - textile manufacturing
- Loom-winder tender
- Carbonizer tender - textile manufacturing
- Boiler - textile manufacturing
- Chopping machine tender
- Colourer tender - hide and pelt processing
- Crabber - textile manufacturing
- Scray machine feeder
- Shaving machine tender
- Fur-shaving machine tender - hide and pelt processing
- Doubling machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Pile-finishing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Boarding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Garnett machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Tar machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Carding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Chenille tender - textile manufacturing
- Roller machine tender - tannery
- Decating machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Splicing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Strike-off machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Cotton ball machine tender
- Flocking machine tender
- Batting machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Crimping machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Singeing and boiling machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Cloth-printing machine tender
- Fleecing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Washing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Boarding machine tender - hide and pelt processing
- Clipping machine tender
- Cropping machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Twine-cropping machine tender
- Crabbing machine tender
- Coating machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Calendering machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Staple processing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Continuous press tender - textile manufacturing
- Spraying machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Drying machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Dyeing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Texturing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Yarn-texturing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Aging machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Lapper tender - textile manufacturing
- Folding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Tape-folding machine tender
- Heat curer - textile manufacturing
- Stender tender
- Tenter machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Saturator - textile manufacturing
- Dyeing worker - textile manufacturing
- Strand-forming machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Dyeing tub tender - textile manufacturing
- Roving frame tender - textile manufacturing
- Super-draft tender
- Combining and drawing machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Cloth-bleaching range tender
- Cloth-dyeing range tender
- Cloth-processing range tender
- Picking machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Lap machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Bale-breaker tender - textile manufacturing
- Yarn winder tender
- Automatic yarn winder
- Limer - hide and pelt processing
- Beamer - hide and pelt processing
- Yarn conditioner
- Bater - hide and pelt processing
- Spinning frame tender - textile manufacturing
- Tumbler tender - textile manufacturing
- Reel tender - textile manufacturing
- Spun yarn doubler - textile manufacturing
- Thread doubler
- Yarn doubler - textile manufacturing
- Padder tender - textile manufacturing
- Pad-extractor tender - textile manufacturing
- Bonding machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Colour mixer - textile manufacturing
- Fur mixer
- Stock mixer - textile manufacturing
- Dye mixer
- Wool blender
- Measuring machine tender - hide and pelt processing
- Covering-machine tender
- Pickler - hide and pelt processing
- Twister tender - textile manufacturing
- Uptwister tender - textile manufacturing
- Warp twister tender - textile manufacturing
- Cloth dryer
- Raw stock dryer - textile manufacturing
- Yarn dryer
- Felt dryer - textile manufacturing
- Can tender
- Tension drying machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Centrifugal extractor - textile manufacturing
- Carpet drying machine tender - textile manufacturing
- Lap-winder tender - textile manufacturing
- Cloth steamer
- Hide processing worker
- Pelt processing worker
- Steamer tender - textile manufacturing
- Garment steamer tender
- Kettle tender - textile manufacturing
- Dye-reel tender - textile manufacturing
- Beamhouse worker - hide and pelt processing
- Fur floor worker - hide and pelt processing
- Yarn-plaiting equipment tender
- Comber - textile manufacturing
- Poler - textile manufacturing
- Pleater - textile manufacturing
- Burnisher - hide and pelt processing
- Leather buffer
- Hide and skin preparer
- Tanning solution preparer
- Size maker - textile manufacturing
- Bobbin winder - textile manufacturing
- Opening and blending operator
- Drying machine tender - textile processing
- Presser and threader - textile manufacturing
- Respooler - textile manufacturing
- Weft straightener - textile manufacturing
- Rebeamer - textile manufacturing
- Splitter - hide and pelt processing
- Cutting and printing machine set-up operator - textile manufacturing
- Beam setter - textile manufacturing
- Crimp setter
- Reel winder - textile manufacturing
- Rewarper - textile manufacturing
- Cloth shrinker
- Rinser - textile manufacturing
- Bobbin dryer - textile manufacturing
- Breaker feeder - textile manufacturing
- Carding machine feeder - textile manufacturing
- Fur blower - textile manufacturing
- Tanner
- Leather tanner
- Dyer - textile manufacturing
- Cloth dyer
- Leather dyer - hide and pelt processing
- Glass fibre dyer - textile manufacturing
- Raw stock dyer - textile manufacturing
- Twine dyer
- Yarn dyer
- Warp end dyer - textile manufacturing
- Batch dyer - textile manufacturing
- Pelt dyer - hide and pelt processing
- Combed sliver dyer - textile manufacturing
- Textile dyer
- Fabric dyer
- Beam dyer - textile manufacturing
- Pelt shearer
- Bowker - textile manufacturing
- Yarn soaker
- Wool sorter
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
Last update: January 29, 2026
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