Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that winds yarn, thread, or textile selvage from bobbins, cones, cops, or tubes into skeins for dyeing or shipment: Places supply package of yarn, thread, or selvage on spindles.

• 2) Threads ends of yarn through guides and wraps or ties them around swift.

• 3) Starts machine and observes yarn for breaks.

• 4) Stops machine to tie or sew broken ends together and replace exhausted supply packages.

• 5) Cuts yarn with knife or scissors when specified amount of yarn is reeled, and ties ends of skein together.

• 6) Laces string through and around skein to prevent tangling.

• 7) Pulls levers to collapse reel and slides skeins off end of reel or observes automatic discharge to detect tangles.

• 8) May set dial of revolution counter to measure yardage wound.

• 9) May tie several skeins into bundle.

• 10) May be designated according to material wound as Twine-Reeling Machine Operator.