A professional who tends machine that winds cloth from one form to another to facilitate further processing. Responsibilities include:

• Threads cloth from supply truck, bale, or roll through guides and rollers to takeup roll, tube, or rod, or sews cloth to end of leader in machine, using sewing machine.
• Turns handwheel to adjust width guides.
• Starts machine and observes cloth to detect irregular seams and torn selvages.
• Pushes lever to control tension on cloth and speed of machine.
• Cuts out flaws and combines several cuts of cloth to form one roll, sewing ends with portable sewing machine.
• Records yardage clock reading on order ticket.
• Removes full rolls from machine onto handtruck by hand or using hoist.
• May wrap cloth roll for storage or shipping.
• May be designated according to process for which cloth is being wound as boiling-off winder; type of material wound as carpet winder; or type of winding machine used as reeling-and-tubing-machine operator.