Occupation Atlasfinishing textile technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/1b8c2a8e-204e-4035-bf88-921564e6df2e
finishing textile technician
Finishing textile technicians perform operations related to setting up finishing processes. The finishing processes are the final series of operations that improve the appearance and/or usefulness of textiles.
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Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed
Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RCIRealistic · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic6.77
- C Conventional4.18
- I Investigative2.07
- A Artistic1.27
- S Social1.27
- E Enterprising1.21
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders (51-6061.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (12)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- challenging issues in the textile industry
- conduct leather finishing operations
- dyeing technology
- finish processing of man-made fibres
- health and safety in the textile industry
- maintain work standards
- prepare equipment for textile printing
- tend textile dyeing machines
- textile chemistry
- textile finishing technology
- textile printing technology
- use textile finishing machine technologies
Optional (11)
- apply footwear finishing techniques
- conduct textile testing operations
- design woven fabrics
- develop textile colouring recipes
- knitting machine technology
- monitor textile manufacturing developments
- nonwoven machine technology
- research and development in textiles
- tend textile finishing machines
- test physical properties of textiles
- textile technologies
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 12 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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printing textile technician
4 shared · 5 more of its owntextile chemistry, textile printing technology, dyeing technology, maintain work standards
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