A professional who sets up and operates battery of automatic, link-type (jacquard) knitting machines to knit garments of specified pattern and design. Responsibilities include:

• Places chains that control operation of machine on machine sprockets.
• Places cones of yarn on machine spindles and threads end of yarn through machine guides, tension devices, and needle eyes.
• Turns screws to set carrier stops and adjust stroke of yarn carrier.
• Pushes lever to separate needle plates of machine and hooks stitches of knitted piece of fabric onto needles to serve as base for knitting.
• Starts machine and observes operation to detect defective knitting.
• Ties ends of broken yarn with weaver's knot.
• Separates needle plates and removes finished fabric from machine.