8159-Textile, fur and leather products machine operators not elsewhere classified

Job Title: 

Textile, fur and leather products machine operators not elsewhere classified

Job Description: 

This unit group covers textile, fur and leather products machine operators not classified elsewhere in Minor group 815, Textile, fur and leather products machine operators. For instance, the group includes those engaged in operating and monitoring machines which make hats, tents, mattresses or miscellaneous articles such as braids or other trimmings.

Tasks: 

Tasks include

  • operating and monitoring machines which form and make hats out of textiles, fur or leather
  • operating and monitoring machines which make miscellaneous articles such as braids or other trimmings
  • operating and monitoring machines that fold cloth into measured length
  • operating and monitoring machines that wind thread, twine, or yarn into balls preparatory to shipping or further processing
  • operating and monitoring machines to measure size of pieces of leather.
Specific Occupations: 

81591
Machine-operator, (textile/ mattress production/ leather /hat making/ braid production / shrinking (felt hoods) / pattern-making (fur/ leather/textiles), blocking (hats), forming (felt hoods))

81592
Blocker, hat

81593
Operator, machine: cutting (garments)/Operator, /achine: cutting (textiles) Operator, machine: tent making

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Source Of Info: 

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, PSCO-2393