Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Prepare to operate one type of TCF machine
- Check specifications to identify materials and process required
- Identify machine processes and operational stages
- Calculate and adjust machine settings to meet requirements for production
- Identify and undertake preliminary operations, as required, and follow required procedures to prepare materials and equipment
- Load materials for processing according to machine requirements and manufacturer specifications
- Keep machine and components, and area around machine clean during preparation and loading and apply relevant WHS practices
- Check machine safety equipment, and identify and recognise risks and potential hazards
- Operate and monitor one type of machine
- Start, operate, stop, re-start and monitor machine operations in accordance with manufacturer requirements to produce textile material or product
- Monitor and coordinate materials according to enterprise procedures
- Sort waste and clean machine according to enterprise procedures
- Identify and report minor faults in materials, process and machine, where necessary, to maintain quality standards
- Check machine in the event of stoppage and follow procedures for re-starting machine
- Report major machine or product faults
- Complete and finalise operations
- Unload or remove textile material or product according to manufacturer specifications and workplace procedures
- Check output of machine or product against quality specifications, identify and rectify routine faults or non-conformance and report according to workplace procedures
- Despatch product to next process according to production sequence
- Complete production records and other documentation, according to workplace procedures