Job Description:

• 1) Tests hosiery to verify conformance to plant quality standards or to obtain data for use in establishing quality standards for new styles: Measures overall length, and length of toe, foot, heel, welt, and after welt, with scale.

• 2) Determines stretch of welt, knee, ankle, and instep, using weighted stretch machine.

• 3) Tests tensile strength of hose at knee on stretch flex machine.

• 4) Ascertains number of stitches per inch, using stitch counting machine.

• 5) Examines samples of hose in production and defective hose returned by purchasers to find knitting, seaming, looping, or dyeing defects, using magnifying glass.

• 6) Determines cause of defect, basing judgment on knowledge of production methods.

• 7) Records results of findings.