Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials
A concerned individual for textile material performs pressing or shaping articles by hand or machine.
What is textile material? A material that is used in textile or garment. A presser job description involves duties like hanging, folding, packaging, and tagging finished articles for delivery to customers, operating steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items or to shape, form, or patch articles and straightening, smoothing, or shaping materials to prepare them for pressing.
They are bound to remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing and finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or work orders, using machine presses or hand irons. Textile materials candidates must be a high school diploma or GED certificate holder. Along with this, previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed to carry on this job’s role.
To be successful in textile material production, one must possess the ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
Qualifications
Every career requires an element of study and academic qualification, and there can be several study routes and pathways you can take. In following any academic pathway you will study subjects that contribute to the specialised knowledge required to achieve your career goals. These qualifications provide a future employer with the evidence that you have the desired knowledge, understanding and experience of their industry, so it’s important to consider the various types of qualifications available to you and to understand how they can boost your career and create opportunities for you.
- Bachelor's Any Subject
Tasks
- Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.
- Lower irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed.
- Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing.
- Hang, fold, package, and tag finished articles for delivery to customers.
- Slide material back and forth over heated, metal, ball-shaped forms to smooth and press portions of garments that cannot be satisfactorily pressed with flat pressers or hand irons.
- Select appropriate pressing machines, based on garment properties such as heat tolerance.
- Push and pull irons over surfaces of articles to smooth or shape them.
- Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons.
- Straighten, smooth, or shape materials to prepare them for pressing.
- Finish pants, jackets, shirts, skirts and other dry-cleaned and laundered articles, using hand irons.
Progression Routes
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