Job description Textile Product Labourer in the Lower Mainland–Southwest Region

Find out what work is like for a textile product labourer in Canada. This work description is applicable to all Labourers in textile processing (NOC 95105).

Labourers in textile processing and cutting

Description

Labourers in textile processing perform a variety of manual duties to assist in processing fibres into yarn or thread, or to assist in weaving, knitting, bleaching, dyeing or finishing textile fabrics or other textile products. Labourers in textile cutting cut fabric, fur, or leather to make parts for garments, linens, shoes and other articles. Labourers in textile processing and cutting are employed by clothing and textile manufacturers and other manufacturers of fabric products such as leather and fur.

Job duties

Here are some of the main activities and tasks that Labourers in textile processing and cutting have to perform, and some of the physical demands they involve:

  • Labourers in textile processing
  • Load and off-load machines
  • Clean textile machines and work areas
  • Push carts, trucks, or cans of fibres from one work area to another
  • Assist machine operators and other textile workers as required.
  • Fabric cutters
  • Place patterns on top of layers of fabric and cut fabric using electric or manual knives, cutters or computer numerically controlled (CNC) cutting devices
  • Adjust cutting technique to type of fabric and style of garment
  • May cut fabric samples.
  • Fur cutters
  • Cut fur skins in diagonal strips to specified length and shape of pelt using furrier's knives and cutters
  • Number pelts to indicate their location on pattern
  • May sort or match skins, and may prepare fur samples.
  • Leather cutters
  • Select leather and cutting dies for leather goods and shoe parts according to specifications
  • Position leather on cutting bed of machine, maximizing usage according to skin grain, skin flaws and skin stretch
  • Operate clicker or punch press to stretch leather
  • Operate machine to strip and cut leather or cut single leather skins by hand to make leather products
  • May cut leather samples.

Physical demands

Physical demands are the physical activities that the job requires the worker to do. Physical demands are selected according to the likeliness that workers will have to perform them for at least half of the time they spend at work.

Work environment

The work environment refers to the physical setting in which people work. The characteristics and conditions of the work environment are selected according to the likeliness that workers will be exposed to them at least once a week.

Physical proximity from others

Physical proximity from others refers to the physical distance between individuals in the workplace. The likeliness that the job requires to perform tasks while being physically close to other people is rated on a scale with 3 levels: "Somewhat close", "Close" and "Very close".

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Sources Occupational and Skills Information System & National Occupational Classification

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