Job Description:

• 1) Tends knitting machine that increases and decreases stitches at designated places to knit shaped garment parts onto ribbed cuffs or waist bands: Creels machine and threads yarn through guides, stop-motion devices, and yarn carriers, using hook.

• 2) Positions transfer bar containing several ribbed parts over needle bed of machine, pushes stitches from transfer points onto machine needles and removes transfer bar.

• 3) Pulls one ribbed part up to needle eyes and attaches outer edge of rib to hooked bar of takeup roll.

• 4) Starts machine that automatically increases stitches to knit garment part.

• 5) Turns handle or presses pedal, when machine automatically stops, to activate narrowing fingers that cause needles to decrease stitches to shape portions, such as shoulders and neck.

• 6) Replaces defective needles, using pliers.

• 7) Notifies KNITTING-MACHINE FIXER of machine malfunction.