Job Description:

• 1) Tends battery of machines that braid yarn into flat or tubular narrow fabrics: Creels machine according to work ticket and threads yarn through guides, tensions, braiding point, and tension rollers.

• 2) Starts machine and laps end around takeup roll or places end into receiving can.

• 3) Observes braiding to detect breaks in yarn and ties or glues broken yarn ends.

• 4) Doffs full rolls or cans of braided material from machine.

• 5) May braid jacket around articles, such as rope or wire.

• 6) May tend yarn rewinding machine.