A professional who tends circular knitting machines with automatic pattern controls that knit seamless hose. Responsibilities include:

• Places yarn spools on creel; threads and starts machine.
• Observes operation of machines and notifies knitting-machine fixer of any malfunction.
• Removes knitted hose from machines.
• Pulls hose over inspection form or over hand to examine for defects, such as holes, runs, or picks.
• Classifies hose according to specifications into grades, such as first quality, rejects, and mends.
• Counts, bundles, ties, and labels each grade of hose.
• Clips loose or connecting threads on or joining socks, using scissors.
• May measure overall length of hose, using scale on inspection form.
• May mark defective portion of hose for hosiery mender, using crayon.
• May be designated according to type of hose knitted as sock knitter.