textile pattern making machine operatortotextile machine operator
A textile pattern making machine operator already meets 75% of what the textile machine operator role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.
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1 Share of the textile machine operator role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the textile pattern making machine operator profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A textile machine operator role treats 13 of its required skills as things a textile pattern making machine operator already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- manufacture braided products
- manufacture knitted textiles
- manufacture non-woven filament products
- manufacture nonwoven staple products
- tend spinning machines
- tend textile drying machines
What stands in the way is 4 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 13 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A textile machine operator role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a textile pattern making machine operator background worth leading with.
- already held tend textile drying machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held tend textile washing machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held tend textile dyeing machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held tend textile finishing machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held tend textile printing machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held tend spinning machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
All 13 carried skills, including the 13 the textile machine operator role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 5 missing skills fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held manufacture man-made fibres required
- required, not held tend weaving machines required
- required, not held use textile technique for hand-made products required
- required, not held control textile process required
- optional, not held operate welding equipment optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a textile machine operator role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 control textile process skill · sector specific
- 02 manufacture man-made fibres skill · sector specific
- 03 tend weaving machines skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 13 skills that carry over
- already held manufacture braided products skill
- already held manufacture knitted textiles skill
- already held manufacture non-woven filament products skill
- already held manufacture nonwoven staple products skill
- already held tend spinning machines skill
- already held tend textile drying machines skill
- already held tend textile dyeing machines skill
- already held tend textile finishing machines skill
- already held tend textile printing machines skill
- already held tend textile washing machines skill
- already held textile techniques knowledge
- already held textile technologies knowledge
- already held use textile finishing machine technologies skill
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held operate welding equipment optional
27 held skills the textile machine operator role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role CAD for garment manufacturing knowledge
- not needed by the target role adhere to organisational guidelines skill
- not needed by the target role advise customers on sewing patterns skill
- not needed by the target role apply health and safety standards skill
- not needed by the target role create patterns for garments skill
- not needed by the target role create patterns for textile products skill
- not needed by the target role cut textiles skill
- not needed by the target role decorate textile articles skill
- not needed by the target role design warp knit fabrics skill
- not needed by the target role design woven fabrics skill
- not needed by the target role draw sketches to develop textile articles using softwares skill
- not needed by the target role dyeing technology knowledge
- not needed by the target role embroider fabrics skill
- not needed by the target role identify customer's needs skill
- not needed by the target role iron textiles skill
- not needed by the target role manufacture woven fabrics skill
- not needed by the target role modify textile designs skill
- not needed by the target role monitor textile manufacturing developments skill
- not needed by the target role operate garment manufacturing machines skill
- not needed by the target role operate patternmaking machinery skill
- not needed by the target role prepare equipment for textile printing skill
- not needed by the target role produce textile designs skill
- not needed by the target role produce textile samples skill
- not needed by the target role properties of textile materials knowledge
- not needed by the target role sew pieces of fabric skill
- not needed by the target role textile industry machinery products knowledge
- not needed by the target role textile trends knowledge
Other moves recorded from textile pattern making machine operator
- embroiderer 64% covered · moderate
- textile finishing machine operator 50% covered · moderate
- spinning textile operator 47% covered · moderate
- textile dyer 43% covered · moderate
Full index of moves from textile pattern making machine operator
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.