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Textile Wet Process Production Operator

OFO Code: 715401

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
715401
Occupation
Textile Wet Process Production Operator
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
PLANT AND MACHINE OPERATORS AND ASSEMBLERS
Unit group
7154 · Bleaching, Dyeing and Fabric Cleaning Machine Operators

Official description
Bleaching, dyeing and fabric cleaning machine operators operate and monitor machines that bleach, shrink, dye, and otherwise treat fibres, yarn or cloth.

More official OFO detail

Specialisations: Textile Printing Machine Operator, Textile Dyeing and Printing Preparation Machine Operator, Textile Wet Process Production finishing Machine Operator, Textile Wet Process Dyeing Machine Operator, Textile Wet Process Printing Machine Operator, Textile Wet Process Production Preparation Machine Operator, Textile Wet Process Finishing Machine Operator, Textile Dyeing Machine Operator / Textile Dyer, Fabric Bleaching Machine Operator, Textile Wet Process Coating Machine Operator

  • Dyeing articles to change or restore their colours
  • Operating machines that comb, dry and polish furs, clean, sterilize and fluff feathers and blankets
  • Starting and controlling machines and equipment to bleach, dye, or otherwise process and finish fabric, yarn, thread, and/or other textile goods
  • Operating and monitoring machines that treat silk to give it body and weight
  • Keying in processing instructions to program electronic equipment
  • Tending machines that shrink woven or knitted cloth to predetermined size or strengthen the weave by interlocking the fibres
  • Tending and regulating equipment that fumigates and removes foreign matter from furs
  • Observing display screens, control panels, equipment, and cloth entering or exiting processes to determine if equipment is operating correctly
  • Operating and monitoring machines that stretch, or impart lustre, or other type of finish to textiles
  • Operating and monitoring machines that impregnate textiles with chemicals to render them waterproof
  • Tending a variety of automatic machines that comb and polish furs

2. Demand status

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

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3. Salary evidence

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5. Qualification

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7. Industry, sector and provincial context

National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.

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10. Sources for this page

  • DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
    Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact.
  • DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
    The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment.
  • Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
    Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone.
  • QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
    Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review.
  • Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
    Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim.
  • SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
    PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.
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