Textile Weaver

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: French
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
- **Work site environment**:

- Noisy
- Dusty
- Hot
- ** Work setting**:

- Textile plant
- Textile manufacturer
- ** Tasks**:

- Repair minor mechanical problems such as broken or defective needles
- Set up looms or other processing machines
- Notify supervisor or repairers of mechanical malfunctions
- Read loom patterns and prepare loom pattern mechanisms for processing
- Verify equipment's efficiency
- Investigate machine stoppages
- Operate looms to weave yarn or thread into têxtile fabrics or products
- Make adjustments to machinery
- Patrol machines and check fabrics or products for defects and to verify efficient operation
- ** Type of looms**:

- Shuttleless loom, cam
- Shuttleless loom, jacquard
- ** Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
- Public transportation is available
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Adaptability
- Hardworking
- Quick learner
- ** Health benefits**:

- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- ** Financial benefits**:

- As per collective agreement
- Bonus
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- ** Long term benefits**:

- Long-term care insurance
- ** Other benefits**:

- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer