A professional who tends winding units attached to looms that automatically wind yarn onto quills, transfer quills to loom shuttles, and strip bunch yarn from expended quills. Responsibilities include:

• Positions yarn packages on machine creel and threads yarn end through guides, tensions, and yarn carrier.
• Places empty quills in feed tray of winding unit.
• Patrols aisles between looms to detect malfunctions, such as jammed quills, broken yarn ends, exhausted yarn packages, and unstripped quills in reject tray.
• Straightens or removes jammed quills, ties broken yarn ends, replaces exhausted yarn packages, strips yarn from rejected quills by hand, and places stripped quills in feed tray.
• Notifies loom fixer of mechanical defects.
• Important variables may be indicated by trade name of machines used.