Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Career, Salary and Skills

Occupation description

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.

National salary and employment

Top skills

Typical tasks

• 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.
• Remove spindles from machines and bobbins from spindles.

Technology

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Word

Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders salary by location

Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.

• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in GA
  Median $38,930 · Employment 8,830
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in NC
  Median $36,580 · Employment 4,190
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in Dalton, GA
  Median $38,670 · Employment 3,370
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in SC
  Median $38,280 · Employment 2,240
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in VA
  Median $50,770 · Employment 1,530
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in Charlotte, NC
  Median $36,800 · Employment 1,270
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in Atlanta, GA
  Median $43,870 · Employment 1,110
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in AL
  Median $40,210 · Employment 1,060
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in Winston, NC
  Median $37,070 · Employment 780
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in Greensboro, NC
  Median $37,290 · Employment 620
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in Chattanooga, TN
  Median $40,140 · Employment 510
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary in PA
  Median $38,830 · Employment 500

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