Job Description:

• 1) Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in testing lap, sliver, roving, and yarn for conformance to processing standards and assists workers in performing laboratory tests: Confers with plant personnel to develop testing schedule and to modify processing standards for producing new yarn types requested by customer.

• 2) Coordinates activities, such as resolving customer complaints of defective yarn, inspecting, calibrating, and maintaining laboratory equipment, and identifying causes of substandard lap, roving, sliver, and yarn.

• 3) Performs laboratory procedures to test lap, sliver, roving, and yarn for conformance to processing standards, such as evenness of lap and tensile strength of yarn.