Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates battery of automatic, link-type knitting machines to knit garments of specified pattern and design: Places chains that control operation of machine on machine sprockets.

• 2) Places cones of yarn on machine spindles and threads end of yarn through machine guides, tension devices, and needle eyes.

• 3) Turns screws to set carrier stops and adjust stroke of yarn carrier.

• 4) Pushes lever to separate needle plates of machine and hooks stitches of knitted piece of fabric onto needles to serve as base for knitting.

• 5) Starts machine and observes operation to detect defective knitting.

• 6) Ties ends of broken yarn with weaver's knot.

• 7) Separates needle plates and removes finished fabric from machine.