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Yarn Production Machine Operator
OFO Code: 715102
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 715102
- Occupation
- Yarn Production Machine Operator
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PLANT AND MACHINE OPERATORS AND ASSEMBLERS
- Unit group
- 7151 · Fibre Preparing, Spinning and Winding Machine Operators
Official description
Textile, fur and leather products machine operators operate and monitor machines which prepare fibres, and spin, double, twist and wind yarn and thread from natural textile fibres. They twist two or more strands of yarn to prepare single stronger, smoother, uniform and heavier strands and treat textiles to make them stiff and water resistant.
More official OFO detail
- Operating and monitoring machines which clean and fluff textile fibres, transform them into sliver, comb them into sliver for first drawing, combine slivers into sliver lap or sliver laps into ribbon lap
- Cleaning rollers and cylinders of carding machines to remove wool waste
- Operating and monitoring machines for drawing slivers received from drawing machine into loosely twisted strands
- Operating and monitoring machines for cleaning and turning woollen yarn waste into fluffed wool
- Operating and monitoring machines which combine textile fibres into uniform blends
- Preparing sizing for use in stiffening and finishing cloth and yarn by mixing ingredients such as starch, tallow, resins, soaps and water and boiling mixture for specified time in steam
- Operating and monitoring machines for tearing woollen rags into fibre
- Operating draw frame (machine) having number of drawing sets, each set combining several slivers into one of nearly same weight and thickness as any of original sliver
- Operating and monitoring spinning frame that draws out and twists roving or sliver into yarn;
- Treating textiles with chemicals to make them water resistant
- Operating and resurfacing metal drawing rolls of various spinning, combing and lapping machines with new rubber or leather covers
2. Demand status
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned