Profession knitting machine supervisor

Knitter supervisors supervise the knitting process of a group of machines, monitoring fabric quality and knitting conditions. They inspect knitting machines after set up, start up and during production to ensure that the product being knit meets specifications and quality standards.

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Personality Type

Knowledge

  • Knitting machine technology

    Manufacturing technologies which use loop forming techniques to convert yarns into fabrics in order to form knitted fabrics.

Skills

  • Maintain work standards

    Maintaining standards of work in order to improve and acquire new skills and work methods.

  • Use warp knitting technologies

    Use warp knitting machine technologies that enable the formation of fabrics. Able to set machines for warp knitting, colour and pattern for monitoring and controlling the warp knitting process on electronic automatic warp knitting machines equipped with multifunction microprocessor and software.

  • Ensure equipment availability

    Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.

  • Manufacture knitted textiles

    Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture knitted products keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

  • Manufacture weft knitted fabrics

    Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture weft knitting fabrics.

  • Control textile process

    Plan and monitor textile production to achieve control on behalf of quality, productivity and delivery time.

Optional knowledge and skills

use warp preparation technologies evaluate textile characteristics properties of fabrics draw sketches to develop textile articles manufacturing of fur products manufacture braided products manufacture fur products

Source: Sisyphus ODB