Job Description:

• 1) Tends winding units attached to looms that automatically wind yarn onto quills, transfer quills to loom shuttles, and strip bunch yarn from expended quills: Positions yarn packages on machine creel and threads yarn end through guides, tensions, and yarn carrier.

• 2) Places empty quills in feed tray of winding unit.

• 3) Patrols aisles between looms to detect malfunctions, such as jammed quills, broken yarn ends, exhausted yarn packages, and unstripped quills in reject tray.

• 4) Straightens or removes jammed quills, ties broken yarn ends, replaces exhausted yarn packages, strips yarn from rejected quills by hand, and places stripped quills in feed tray.

• 5) Notifies LOOM FIXER of mechanical defects.

• 6) Important variables may be indicated by trade name of machines used.