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Where a finishing textile technician can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a finishing textile technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Finishing textile technicians perform operations related to setting up finishing processes. The finishing processes are the final series of operations that improve the appearance and/or usefulness of textiles.

Also known as finishing textile supervisor, textile finishing operator, finishing technicians, textile finishing technician, cloth finisher, textile technician for finishing, finishing technician, yarn finisher, bleaching machine operator, bleaching textile technician, finishing department manager, textile finisher.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 23 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: textile finishing machine operator, 78%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
textile finishing machine ope… 78% covered textile dyeing technician 71% covered textile dyer 70% covered textile chemist 64% covered printing textile technician 59% covered finishing textile technic… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from finishing textile technician, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a finishing textile technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A finishing textile technician needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • conduct leather finishing operations handling and moving
  • finish processing of man-made fibres working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • prepare equipment for textile printing working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • tend textile dyeing machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • challenging issues in the textile industry engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • textile chemistry engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • textile printing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • health and safety in the textile industry services
  • use textile finishing machine technologies working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • textile finishing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a finishing textile technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Finishing textile technician is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a finishing textile technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.