Textile fibre and yarn, hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers
(NOC 94130)
Career Overview
Textile dyeing and yarn processing machine operators and workers:
- Run machines to prepare textile fibres; spin, wind or twist yarn or thread; and bleach, dye or finish yarn, thread, cloth or textile products
- Work for textile manufacturing companies
Hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers:
- Trim, scrape, clean, tan, buff and dye animal hides, pelts or skins to produce leather stock and finished furs
- Work for leather tanning, fur dressing and leather and fur dyeing establishments
Job Titles
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Automatic spooler operator - textile manufacturing
Automatic warper tender - textile manufacturing
Automatic yarn winder
Back tender - cloth printing
Bale-breaker tender - textile manufacturing
Bale breaker - textile manufacturing
Batch dyer - textile manufacturing
Bater - hide and pelt processing
Batting machine tender - textile manufacturing
Beam dyer - textile manufacturing
Beamer - hide and pelt processing
Beamer - textile manufacturing
Beamhouse worker - hide and pelt processing
Beam setter - textile manufacturing
Beam tier - textile manufacturing
Beam warper - textile manufacturing
Beating machine tender - hide and pelt processing
Bleacher - textile manufacturing
Bleaching machine operator - textile manufacturing
Bleaching range operator - textile manufacturing
Blending machine tender - textile manufacturing
Boarder - textile manufacturing
Boarding machine tender - hide and pelt processing
Boarding machine tender - textile manufacturing
Bobbin dryer - textile manufacturing
Bobbin stripper - textile manufacturing
Bobbin winder - textile manufacturing
Boiler - textile manufacturing
Bonding machine tender - textile manufacturing
Bowker - textile manufacturing
Breaker feeder - textile manufacturing
Breaker tender - textile manufacturing
Brusher and shearer - textile manufacturing
Brushing machine operator - hide and pelt processing
Brushing operator - textile manufacturing
Brush machine tender - textile manufacturing
Burnisher - hide and pelt processing
Calendering machine tender - textile manufacturing
Calender operator - textile manufacturing
Can tender
Carbonizer tender - textile manufacturing
Carder - textile manufacturing
Carding machine feeder - textile manufacturing
Carding machine operator - textile manufacturing
Carding machine tender - textile manufacturing
Card stripper - textile manufacturing
Carpet drying machine tender - textile manufacturing
Centrifugal extractor - textile manufacturing
Centrifuge operator - textile manufacturing
Chenille tender - textile manufacturing
Chopping machine tender
Clipping machine tender
Cloth bleacher
Cloth-bleaching range tender
Cloth-doubling machine operator
Cloth dryer
Cloth-dyeing range tender
Cloth dyer
Cloth finisher
Cloth-finishing range operator
Cloth mercerizer operator
Cloth neutralizer
Cloth-neutralizing and cloth-rinsing machine operator
Cloth printer
Cloth-printing machine tender
Cloth-printing roller changer
Cloth-processing range tender
Cloth shade maker
Cloth shader
Cloth shrinker
Cloth steamer
Cloth stretcher-dryer tender
Cloth washer - textile manufacturing
Coating and embossing unit operator - textile manufacturing
Coating machine operator - textile manufacturing
Coating machine tender - textile manufacturing
Colourer tender - hide and pelt processing
Colourist - textile manufacturing
Colour mixer - textile manufacturing
Combed sliver dyer - textile manufacturing
Comber - textile manufacturing
Combining and drawing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Conditioner tender - textile manufacturing
Cone winder - textile manufacturing
Continuous dyeing machine operator - textile manufacturing
Continuous felt dryer operator - textile manufacturing
Continuous press tender - textile manufacturing
Cotton ball machine tender
Covering-machine tender
Crabber - textile manufacturing
Crabbing machine tender
Crabbing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Crimping machine tender - textile manufacturing
Crimp setter
Cropping machine tender - textile manufacturing
Cutting and printing machine set-up operator - textile manufacturing
Decating machine tender - textile manufacturing
Dehairing machine operator - hide and pelt processing
Doubling machine operator - textile manufacturing
Doubling machine tender - textile manufacturing
Drawing machine tender - textile fibre
Dressed hide and pelt finisher
Dresser - textile manufacturing
Dry cans operator - textile manufacturing
Dryer - textile manufacturing
Drying machine operator - textile manufacturing
Drying machine tender - textile manufacturing
Drying machine tender - textile processing
Dyeing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Dyeing range operator - textile manufacturing
Dyeing tub tender - textile manufacturing
Dyeing vat operator - textile manufacturing
Dyeing worker - textile manufacturing
Dye mixer
Dye-reel tender - textile manufacturing
Dyer - textile manufacturing
Embossing calender tender - textile manufacturing
Extractor tender - textile manufacturing
Fabric dyer
Fabric-printing machine operator
Felt dryer - textile manufacturing
Fibre classer
Fibreglass roving winder
Fibre mixer
Fibre washer
Finisher - textile manufacturing
Finishing machine operator - textile manufacturing
Finishing range operator - textile manufacturing
Fleecer - textile manufacturing
Fleecing machine operator - textile manufacturing
Fleecing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Fleshing machine tender - hide and pelt processing
Flocking machine tender
Folding machine tender - textile manufacturing
Frame spinner - textile manufacturing
Fuller - textile manufacturing
Fulling machine operator - textile manufacturing
Fulling mill operator - textile manufacturing
Fur blender
Fur blower - textile manufacturing
Fur dresser - hide and pelt processing
Fur floor worker - hide and pelt processing
Fur mixer
Fur pelt dresser - hide and pelt processing
Fur plucker - hide and pelt processing
Fur-shaving machine tender - hide and pelt processing
Furskin dresser - hide and pelt processing
Garment steamer tender
Garnett machine tender - textile manufacturing
Gig machine operator - textile manufacturing
Glass fibre dyer - textile manufacturing
Graining machine operator - tannery
Hand flesher - hide and pelt processing
Hand screen printer - textile manufacturing
Hand slubber
Heat curer - textile manufacturing
Hide and pelt processing worker
Hide and skin preparer
Hide fluffer - hide and pelt processing
Hide parer - hide and pelt processing
Hide processing worker
Hide stretcher
High-speed machine warper - textile manufacturing
Hosiery boarder
Jigger operator - textile manufacturing
Kettle tender - textile manufacturing
Kier-boiler tender - textile manufacturing
Lap machine tender - textile manufacturing
Lapper tender - textile manufacturing
Lapper - textile manufacturing
Lap-winder tender - textile manufacturing
Latex-coating machine operator - textile manufacturing
Leather buffer - hide and pelt processing
Leather dyer - hide and pelt processing
Leather measurer - hide and pelt processing
Leather polisher - hide and pelt processing
Leather sander - hide and pelt processing
Leather shaver - hide and pelt processing
Leather stainer - hide and pelt processing
Leather stretcher - hide and pelt processing
Leather tanner
Limer - hide and pelt processing
Line spooler
Loom-winder tender
Lusterer - textile manufacturing
Machine flesher - hide and pelt processing
Machine operator - textile fibre, yarn, hide and pelt processing
Mangler tender - textile manufacturing
Measuring machine tender - hide and pelt processing
Mercerizer machine operator - textile manufacturing
Mercerizer - textile manufacturing
Napper operator - textile manufacturing
Napper tender - textile manufacturing
Napper - textile manufacturing
Naps teaseller - textile manufacturing
Neutralizer - textile manufacturing
Open-end spinner - textile manufacturing
Opener tender - textile manufacturing
Opening and blending operator - textile manufacturing
Padder tender - textile manufacturing
Padding machine tender - textile manufacturing
Pad-extractor tender - textile manufacturing
Pelt dresser
Pelt dyer - hide and pelt processing
Pelt processing worker
Pelt shearer
Pelt stretcher - hide and pelt processing
Picker - textile manufacturing
Picking machine operator - textile manufacturing
Picking machine tender - textile manufacturing
Pickler - hide and pelt processing
Pile fabric finisher
Pile-finishing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Pleater - textile manufacturing
Poler - textile manufacturing
Polisher - textile fibre
Prepared hide and pelt dresser
Presser-threader - textile manufacturing
Printing machine operator - textile manufacturing
Quiller - textile manufacturing
Quill winder - textile manufacturing
Raw stock dryer - textile manufacturing
Raw stock dyer - textile manufacturing
Rebeamer - textile manufacturing
Redraw operator - textile manufacturing
Reeler - textile manufacturing
Reeling machine operator - textile manufacturing
Reel tender - textile manufacturing
Reel winder - textile manufacturing
Respooler - textile manufacturing
Rewarper - textile manufacturing
Rewinder - textile manufacturing
Ring frame operator - textile manufacturing
Ring spinner - textile manufacturing
Rinser - textile manufacturing
Roller machine tender - tannery
Roller printer - textile manufacturing
Rope coiler
Rotogravure press operator - textile manufacturing
Rover - textile manufacturing
Roving frame tender - textile manufacturing
Roving machine operator - textile manufacturing
Rubber and vinyl coater operator - textile manufacturing
Rubber-coating and vinyl-coating machine operator - textile manufacturing
Rug-coating machine operator
Rug setter - textile manufacturing
Rug-yarn-setting machine operator - textile manufacturing
Sample printer - textile manufacturing
Saturator - textile manufacturing
Scouring machine operator
Scray machine feeder
Screen-printing machine operator - textile manufacturing
Scudder - hide and pelt processing
Shaving machine tender - hide and pelt processing
Shearing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Shrinking machine operator - textile manufacturing
Silk-screen printing machine operator - textile manufacturing
Singeing and boiling machine tender - textile manufacturing
Size maker - textile manufacturing
Sizing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Skeiner - textile manufacturing
Skein spooler - textile manufacturing
Skein winder - textile manufacturing
Slasher operator - textile manufacturing
Slasher - textile manufacturing
Sliver lapper - textile manufacturing
Slubber tender - textile manufacturing
Spinner - textile manufacturing
Spinning frame tender - textile manufacturing
Spinning machine operator - textile manufacturing
Spinning machine tender - textile manufacturing
Splicing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Splitter - hide and pelt processing
Sponge-range operator - textile manufacturing
Spooler - textile manufacturing
Spooling machine tender - textile manufacturing
Spool winder - textile manufacturing
Spraying machine tender - textile manufacturing
Spun yarn doubler - textile manufacturing
Staple cutter - textile manufacturing
Staple processing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Steam cabinet operator - textile manufacturing
Steamer tender - textile manufacturing
Steam sponger - textile manufacturing
Stender tender
Stock mixer - textile manufacturing
Strand-forming machine tender - textile manufacturing
Stretching machine operator - hide and pelt processing
Stretching machine tender - textile manufacturing
Strike-off machine tender - textile manufacturing
Super-draft tender
Tanner - hide and pelt processing
Tannery vatman/woman
Tanning solution preparer
Tape-folding machine tender
Tar machine tender - textile manufacturing
Tension drying machine tender - textile manufacturing
Tenterframe tender
Tenter machine tender
Textile colourist
Textile-dyeing and finishing machine operator
Textile dyer
Textile fleecer - textile manufacturing
Textile napper - textile manufacturing
Textile printer
Textile product bleacher
Textile spinner
Textile-twisting-frame operator
Textile washer
Textile wringer
Texturing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Thread doubler
Thread spinner
Thread spooler
Thread winder
Top dyer - textile manufacturing
Tumbler tender - textile manufacturing
Twine-cropping machine tender
Twine dyer
Twine maker
Twine-shearing machine tender
Twister operator - textile manufacturing
Twister tender - textile manufacturing
Twisting frame operator - textile manufacturing
Twisting operator - textile manufacturing
Uptwister operator - textile manufacturing
Uptwister tender - textile manufacturing
Warp beamer - textile manufacturing
Warp dresser - textile manufacturing
Warp end dresser - textile manufacturing
Warp end dyer - textile manufacturing
Warper operator - textile manufacturing
Warper - textile manufacturing
Warp spinner - textile manufacturing
Warp twister tender - textile manufacturing
Washing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Waxer - textile manufacturing
Weft straightener - textile manufacturing
Willow operator - textile manufacturing
Winder tender - textile manufacturing
Winding machine operator - textile manufacturing
Winding machine tender - textile manufacturing
Wool batcher
Wool blender
Wool mixer
Wool opener and duster
Wool scourer
Wool sorter
Wool washer
Wringer operator - textile manufacturing
Wringer tender - textile manufacturing
Yarn conditioner
Yarn doubler - textile manufacturing
Yarn dryer
Yarn-drying machine tender
Yarn dyer
Yarn finisher
Yarn mercerizer
Yarn-plaiting equipment tender
Yarn soaker
Yarn spinner
Yarn spooler
Yarn-texturing machine tender - textile manufacturing
Yarn winder tender
Duties
Textile dyeing and yarn processing machine operators perform some or all of the following duties:
- Operate and feed machines that wash, mix, blend, pick, card, lap, comb or draw fibres and finish yarn
- Operate spinning, twisting, winding or reeling machines
- Operate a variety of machines to bleach, dye, coat or finish fabric, thread, yarn or other textile products
- Mix dyes or chemicals according to established formulas
- Operate machinery to print designs onto textile products
- Oversee work area, examine products for defects and ensure adherence to quality standards
- Investigate machine stoppages and notify supervisor or mechanic in the event of equipment malfunction
- May set up machines and assist with maintenance and minor repairs to machinery.
Hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers perform some or all of the following duties:
- Operate machines or use hand and powered cutting knives to remove unnecessary particles from hides, skins or pelts; shave or polish hides; and shear fur or wool hides to produce pelts with hair of specified or uniform lengths
- Prepare solutions according to pre-established formulas and immerse hides, skins or pelts to clean, dehair, pickle, dye, oil, tan, soften and preserve
- Adjust rotation and mixing action of vats according to state of pelts
- Tint or dye furs to enhance natural shades of fur
- May maintain and repair vats and other machinery
Earnings
Earnings is income that workers receive in exchange for their labour. Depending on the type of employment, earnings can be in the form of wages (hourly), salaries (fixed monthly or annual) or self-employed earnings.
Work Environment
# Workers Employed
205% Employed Full Time
22%
Source: 2021 Census
Key aspects of the work in this occupation:
- Work takes place in a regular controlled indoor environment
- Workers may be exposed to chemicals, bleach or dyes that can be harmful
- Workers may be exposed to steam or hot surfaces that are potential sources of injury
- Working with equipment, instruments, machinery or power/hand tools may be a source of injury
- Noise in the workplace may cause distraction or hearing loss
- The workplace may contain strong or toxic odours
Career Pathways
Progression is possible within the group to operate more complex dye ranges and textile printing equipment.
Progression to supervisory positions usually requires completion of a college program in textiles, chemistry or a related subject.
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Education, Training and Skills
- Completion of secondary school may be required
- On-the-job training is provided for periods up to several months, depending on the complexity of the process and the number of machines operated
Education programs in B.C.
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Top Skills
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Operations Monitoring
Watching gauges, dials or other indicators to make sure that a machine is working properly.
Operation and Control
Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
Monitoring
Keeping track of and assessing your performance, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Active Listening
Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Speaking
Talking to others to share information effectively.
Quality Control Analysis
Conducting tests and inspections of products, services or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
Critical Thinking
Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Coordination
Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Reading Comprehension
Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Troubleshooting
Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
Labour Market Statistics
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Employment
Find out about employment types and trends by region and industry.
Employment
205
Source: 2021 Census
Employment by Region
Cariboo
Kootenay
Mainland/Southwest
North Coast and Nechako
Northeast
Thompson-Okanagan
Vancouver Island/Coast
| Region | Employment | % Employment of this Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Cariboo | 0 | 0.0% |
| Kootenay | 10 | 5.0% |
| Mainland/Southwest | 145 | 72.5% |
| North Coast and Nechako | 0 | 0.0% |
| Northeast | 0 | 0.0% |
| Thompson-Okanagan | 15 | 7.5% |
| Vancouver Island/Coast | 25 | 12.5% |
Source: 2021 Census
Labour Market Outlook
The B.C. Labour Market Outlook is a 10-year forecast of the expected supply and demand for labour in the province. It’s usually updated every year. The purpose is to provide British Columbians with the knowledge to make informed decisions on careers, skills training, education and hiring.
Forecasted Job Openings (2024-2034)
50
Source: B.C. Labour Market Outlook
Forecasted Job Openings
Forecasted Employment Growth Rate
Composition of Job Openings
Source: B.C. Labour Market Outlook
Job Openings by Region (2024-2034)
Cariboo
Kootenay
Mainland/Southwest
North Coast and Nechako
Northeast
Thompson-Okanagan
Vancouver Island/Coast
| Region | Job Openings | Avg. Annual Employment Growth |
|---|---|---|
| Cariboo | Not available | Not available |
| Kootenay | Not available | Not available |
| Mainland/Southwest | 50 | 1.3% |
| North Coast and Nechako | Not available | Not available |
| Northeast | Not available | Not available |
| Thompson-Okanagan | Not available | Not available |
| Vancouver Island/Coast | 0 | -2.6% |
Source: B.C. Labour Market Outlook
Industry Highlights
Learn about the opportunities in B.C.'s major industries, including employment trends, earning potential, locations of work and more.
Forecasted Job Openings by Industry
| Industry | Job Openings (2024-2034) |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 20 |
| Retail Trade | 10 |
| Professional, Scientific and Technical Services | 10 |
| Information, Culture and Recreation | 10 |
| Repair, Personal and Non-Profit Services | 10 |
For additional industry information, visit the Industry Profiles page.
Source: B.C. Labour Market Outlook
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