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Doubling Machine Operator (Textile)
Textile Machine Operator
Minimum Diploma in Textile technology
Minimum experience of 1 year in the relevant field
The tasks a Doubling-Machine Operator (Textile) is expected to perform include:
Tending the machine that winds two or more strands of yarn
Ensuring that the strands of yarn are placed parallel in the bobbin or the tube that is preparatory to twisting
Placing the supply packages in creel
Drawing the yarn ends through machine guides and tensions that are placed on the take up tube
Observing the operation to detect yarn breaks
Ensuring that yarn supply is not exhausted and there is full package on the take up tubes
Piecing up the yarn breaks by using a knotter
Replacing the supply packages in the creel
Skilled in operating the winding machine
Skilled in detecting the yarn breaks
Equipped in logistics management
Skilled in operating a knotter
Not required
Safety-oriented
Good listening skills
Hardworking
Self-motivated
Focused
Result-oriented
It is not a desk job
Need not supervise a team
Local travelling is not a part of this job role
Part-time work and contractual jobs maybe available
Work from home option is not available
Working hours
Companies usually work for 6/7 days a week and 8/9 hours everyday. This may vary from company to company
Shift system maybe available
Is the job suitable for a candidate with special needs?
No
The job is not listed as hazardous or dangerous as per The Factories Act, 1948 (section 87)
For freshers - INR 8,000 to INR 15, 000 per month
(These figures are indicative and subject to change)
Textile and Handloom Industry in India
The Indian Brand Equity Foundation in their report on the Handloom industry of India have stated that the Indian handloom industry demonstrates the richness and diversity of Indian culture. Along with this fact the sector employs about 4.3 million people and this makes it the second-largest employment provider for the rural population in India after agriculture.
The report suggests that this sector accounts for around 15 per cent of the total cloth produced in the country (excluding wool, silk and yarn) and has the largest infrastructure with 2.3 million weaving looms. The total handloom cloth production in India reached 6.9 billion sq m in 2012?13 which was up from 6.6 billion sq m in 2008?09. The country supplies 95 per cent of world?s demand for hand woven fabric.
With all these figures in consideration it is safe to say that the demand for a Doubling Machine Operator (Textile) is there in the present and will surely increase in the coming years.
Textile companies
Weaving units
Cities and towns across India
Government and private colleges and universities across India