Education:
68%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
32%
Less than a High School Diploma
Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, & Tenders
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Job Outlook:
None
Education:
High school diploma or equivalent
Salary
High:
$45,260.00
Average:
$34,970.00
Hourly
Average:
$16.81
What they do:
Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut textiles.
On the job, you would:
- Inspect products to ensure that the quality standards and specifications are met.
- Place patterns on top of layers of fabric and cut fabric following patterns, using electric or manual knives, cutters, or computer numerically controlled cutting devices.
- Start machines, monitor operations, and make adjustments as needed.
Personality
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Characteristics of this Career |
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92% | Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. | |
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80% | Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. | |
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75% | Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. | |
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70% | Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical. | |
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70% | Self-Control - Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. | |
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69% | Adaptability/Flexibility - Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. | |
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68% | Independence - Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. | |
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68% | Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. | |
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67% | Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. | |
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63% | Analytical Thinking - Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. | |
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63% | Persistence - Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. | |
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62% | Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. | |
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61% | Concern for Others - Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. | |
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59% | Innovation - Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. | |
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54% | Leadership - Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. | |
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54% | Social Orientation - Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Strengths |
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100% | Realistic - Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Values of the Work Environment |
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56% | Support - Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
Aptitude
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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66% | Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |
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56% | Manual Dexterity - The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |
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56% | Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |
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53% | Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |
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53% | Multilimb Coordination - The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |
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53% | Reaction Time - The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |
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53% | Static Strength - The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |
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53% | Trunk Strength - The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. | |
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53% | Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |
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53% | Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. | |
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53% | Auditory Attention - The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |
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53% | Selective Attention - The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |
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53% | Finger Dexterity - The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Skills | Cognitive, Physical, Personality |
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54% | Operations Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |
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54% | Operation and Control - Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
Job Details
Responsibilities
Cut fabrics.
Position patterns on equipment, materials, or workpieces.
Notify others of equipment repair or maintenance needs.
Replace worn equipment components.
Repair production equipment or tools.
Set equipment controls to meet cutting specifications.
Inspect production equipment.
Operate textile cutting or production equipment.
Exchange information with colleagues.
Operate textile cutting or production equipment.
Clean production equipment.
Lubricate production equipment.
Record operational or production data.
Operate textile cutting or production equipment.
Study blueprints or other instructions to determine equipment setup requirements.
Exchange information with colleagues.
Conduct test runs of production equipment.
Operate textile cutting or production equipment.
Operate textile cutting or production equipment.
Mount attachments or tools onto production equipment.
Set equipment controls to meet cutting specifications.
Install mechanical components in production equipment.
Program equipment to perform production tasks.
Feed materials or products into or through equipment.
Inspect products or operations to ensure that standards are met.
Inspect work to ensure standards are met.
Inspect textile products.
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent |
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93% | Face-to-Face Discussions - How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? | |
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84% | Spend Time Standing - How much does this job require standing? | |
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84% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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82% | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls - How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? | |
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77% | Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment - How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.) | |
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76% | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable - How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? | |
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72% | Time Pressure - How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? | |
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68% | Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in non-controlled environmental conditions (e.g., warehouse without heat)? | |
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67% | Exposed to Contaminants - How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? | |
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64% | Spend Time Walking and Running - How much does this job require walking and running? | |
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63% | Work With Work Group or Team - How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? | |
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63% | Exposed to Hazardous Equipment - How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment? | |
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60% | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions - How much does this job require making repetitive motions? | |
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59% | Contact With Others - How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? | |
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57% | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks - How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? | |
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56% | Consequence of Error - How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? | |
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54% | Physical Proximity - To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? | |
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54% | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People - How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? | |
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52% | Freedom to Make Decisions - How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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58% | Duration of Typical Work Week - Number of hours typically worked in one week. |
| A3 | Your Strengths | Importance |
Tasks & Values |
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78% | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings - Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. | |
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74% | Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. | |
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74% | Controlling Machines and Processes - Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). | |
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73% | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. | |
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71% | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials - Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. | |
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70% | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. | |
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67% | Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. | |
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65% | Performing General Physical Activities - Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. | |
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64% | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information - Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. | |
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63% | Making Decisions and Solving Problems - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. | |
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59% | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards - Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. | |
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55% | Processing Information - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. | |
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54% | Training and Teaching Others - Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. | |
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54% | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People - Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. | |
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54% | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. | |
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53% | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. | |
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53% | Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment - Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. | |
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52% | Documenting/Recording Information - Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. | |
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51% | Working with Computers - Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |