Occupation Atlasweaving machine operator
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/939e05ea-2589-4e3c-a501-eea2bdd6864a
weaving machine operator
Weaving machine operators set up, operate and monitor weaving machines .They work with specialised machinery, techniques and materials to process threads of yarn into weaved products such as clothing, home-tex or technical end products. They maintain and repair weaving machinery and ensure operations run without problems.
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Job Zone
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- 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 Realistic6.95
- C Conventional4.28
- I Investigative1.81
- A Artistic1.56
- E Enterprising1.36
- S Social1.02
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 Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders (51-6063.00): 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 (11)
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.
- control textile process
- evaluate textile characteristics
- health and safety in the textile industry
- maintain work standards
- manufacture textile floor coverings
- manufacture woven fabrics
- tend weaving machines
- textile products, textile semi-finished products and raw materials
- types of textile fibres
- use weaving machine technologies
- work in textile manufacturing teams
Optional (14)
- arrange equipment repairs
- check quality of products in textile production line
- electrical machines
- maintain machinery
- maintain technical equipment
- produce textile designs
- produce textile samples
- properties of textile materials
- sort textile items
- textile industry
- textile industry machinery products
- textile measurement
- textile techniques
- 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 11 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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4 shared · 26 more of its owntypes of textile fibres, use weaving machine technologies, health and safety in the textile industry, control textile process
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