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Overview
Textile machinery technicians set up, inspect, maintain and repair mechanical or computer-controlled machines used for weaving, spinning, dyeing, printing and textile finishing.
In job descriptions, look for routine machinery checks, mechanics, electronics, textile finishing technology, machine assembly, fault finding, product quality checks and safe maintenance work.
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Textile machinery technicians work on machines that turn fibres, yarns and fabrics into textile products. They set up weaving, spinning, dyeing, printing or finishing equipment, inspect mechanical and electronic parts, clean components and respond when production quality changes.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include mechanics, electronics, textile finishing technology, routine machinery checks, technical resources and safe maintenance. Specialization can grow around knitting machines, dyeing technology, hydraulics, pneumatics, nonwoven machinery or automated production lines.
Salary context
Pay context is shaped by machine variety, shift work, fault-finding responsibility, electronics knowledge, production pressure and whether the technician only performs maintenance or also installs, adjusts and improves textile machinery.
Career paths
Experience can move from machine operation into textile machinery maintenance, senior technician work, production support, maintenance planning, quality control or equipment installation. Broader paths may lead toward industrial maintenance or textile production supervision.
Good to know
Check whether adverts name the machinery, textile process, maintenance schedule and fault response. Clarify if the role covers weaving, dyeing, finishing, electronics, hydraulics, product quality checks or routine cleaning only.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for textile machinery technician work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 1
Industrial Machinery Mechanics
49-9041.00
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Alternative labels
textile value chain machine repairer
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card fixer
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textile machine installer
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fabric material machine operator
card grinder
assistant textile machinery installer
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textile machine apprentice
textile machinery fixer
textile machine operative
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textile card mechanic
textile machinery installation assistant
textile mechanic
textile card grinder
textile card fixer
fabric machine operator
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Occupation group
Agricultural and industrial machinery mechanics and repairers (7233)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2aa7fbbb-f06e-4454-8ff8-2d799e86ba51 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 7233.15 |
| ISCO group | 7233 |
| Concept type | Occupation |