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Textile machinery technician jobs in Finland

Textile machinery technicians set up, maintain, inspect and repair mechanical and computer-controlled machinery used in textile manufacturing such as weaving, dyeing and finishing machines.

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Textile machinery technician – how much is the pay in Finland?

What the trade paid in 2024

Hourly earnings in Finland 2024 — occupation group 7233 Agricultural and industrial machinery mechanics and repairers, Statistics Finland table 15az, CC BY 4.0.
Median19.86 €/h
Bottom tenth15.33 €/h
Top tenth26.09 €/h
Employees19,303

Pay by sex, 2024

Median hourly earnings by sex in Finland 2024 — occupation group 7233 Agricultural and industrial machinery mechanics and repairers, Statistics Finland table 15az, CC BY 4.0.
SexMedianEmployees
Women17.23 €/h572
Men19.91 €/h18,731

Textile machinery technician - Which skills are essential?

Identify, report and repair equipment damage and malfunctions; communicate with field representatives and manufacturers to obtain repair and replacement components.

Prepare bobbins to be used in textile processing.

Use welding equipment to melt and join together pieces of metal or steel; wear protective eyewear during the working process.

Record data which has been identified specifically during preceding tests in order to verify that outputs of the test produce specific results or to review the reaction of the subject under exceptional or unusual input.

Test electrical equipment for malfunctions. Take safety measures, company guidelines, and legislation concerning electrical equipment into account. Clean, repair and replace parts and connections as required.

Perform tests putting a system, machine, tool or other equipment through a series of actions under actual operating conditions in order to assess its reliability and suitability to realise its tasks, and adjust settings accordingly.

Maintaining standards of work in order to improve and acquire new skills and work methods.

Check machinery and equipment to ensure reliable performance during use and operations in worksites.

Use equipment to test performance and operation of machinery.

Perform the maintenance on installed equipment on-site. Follow procedures to avoid uninstalling equipment from machinery or vehicles.

Remove defective parts and replace them with functioning components.

Perform regular maintenance, possibly including corrections and alterations, on a machine or machine tool to ensure it remains in a proper productive state.

The functioning of electronic circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware and software, including programming and applications. Apply this knowledge to ensure electronic equipment runs smoothly.

Read and interpret such technical resources such as digital or paper drawings and adjustment data in order to properly set up a machine or working tool, or to assemble mechanical equipment.

Operate machines that enable weaving processes turning threads into fabrics. Setup weaving machine programmes for the machine to produce fabrics with the adequate pattern, colour and fabric density.

Check and repair electronic equipment. Detect malfunction, locate faults and take measures to prevent damage.

Development, manufacturing requirements, properties and evaluation of braided fabrics.

Produce plans for the frequency, operations, components and materials to be used in the maintenance of footwear. Install, program, tune and provide preventive and corrective maintenance for different machines and equipment involved in the footwear manufacturing. Assess the functionality and performance of the various equipment and machines, detect faults and correct problems, make repairs and substitute components and pieces, and perform routine lubrication as well as perform preventive and corrective maintenance. Register all technical information related to the maintenance.

Use warping, sizing, drawing-in and knotting technologies that enable the formation of warps.

Technologies, operations, monitoring and maintenance of machines during the yarn spinning process.

Addition of colour partially, according to the designed pattern, onto textile based materials. Processes for adding coloured patterns onto textile materials using printing machines and techniques (rotary of flat bed screen printing or others, heat transfer, inkjet, etc.).

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture weft knitting fabrics.

Theoretical and practical applications of the science studying the action of displacements and forces on physical bodies to the development of machinery and mechanical devices.

Use soldering equipment, such as a soldering gun, a soldering torch or a gas-powered iron, to melt and join together pieces of metal or steel.

Processes used for changing the properties of textile materials. This includes operating, monitoring and maintaining textile finishing machines.

Textile machinery technician - Which skills are useful but not essential?

Prepare documentation for existing and upcoming products or services, describing their functionality and composition in such a way that it is understandable for a wide audience without technical background and compliant with defined requirements and standards. Keep documentation up to date.

Manufacturing technologies which use loop forming techniques to convert yarns into fabrics in order to form knitted fabrics.

Monitor activities and perform tasks ensuring compliance with standards involving environmental protection and sustainability, and amend activities in the case of changes in environmental legislation. Ensure that the processes are compliant with environment regulations and best practices.

Utilise computer equipment or digital devices to facilitate quality control, data management, and communication. Follow instructions given by a computer programme, create computer files or documents.

The requirements, rules and applications of health and safety measures in the textile industry.

Command products from relevant suppliers to get convenient and profitable products to purchase.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture nonwoven staple products, keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

Processes involved in textile dyeing using different dyeing technologies. Also, addition of colours to textile materials using dye stuffs.

The offered textile industry machinery products, their functionalities, properties and legal and regulatory requirements.

Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture man-made fibers, ensuring that the product meets the required specifications, keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

Manufacturing of nonwoven fabrics according to specification. Development, manufacture, properties and evaluation of nonwoven fabrics.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture knitted products keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

Install equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work, or equipment to generate, transfer or measure such currents and fields. This equipment includes switchboards, electric motors, generators or direct current systems.

Check products for quality on the production line and remove defective items before and after packaging.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture woven fabrics.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture staple fiber yarns.

Use textile finishing machine technologies that enable the coating or laminating of fabrics.

The power transmission systems that use the force of flowing liquids to transmit power.

Install systems and components that use liquid fluid power to create mechanical movements such as hydraulic pumps, valves, hydraulic motors, hydraulic cylinders and other elements that power hydraulic machinery.

Estimate the cost implications of restoring and replacing products or parts.

Install systems and components that use pneumatics to create mechanical movements such as air brakes, pneumatic cylinders, air compressors and other systems.

Assemble machines according to instructions and specifications.

Perform routine maintenance and repairs on systems which use pressurised fluids to provide power to machines and equipment.

Perform cleaning routines after equipment use.

Convert slivers into yarns or threads by combing processes converting drafting card sliver to combed sliver. Form short fibre to yarn using yarn and thread processing technologies, mostly ring spinning or open-end spinning (rotor spinning) or alternative spinning techniques. Work in the drafting or drawing process converting sliver into roving and converting roving into yarn, through further drafting and twisting processes. Work on winding machines to reel the yarn from bobbins onto spools or cones.

Use warp knitting machine technologies that enable the formation of fabrics. Able to set machines for warp knitting, colour and pattern for monitoring and controlling the warp knitting process on electronic automatic warp knitting machines equipped with multifunction microprocessor and software.

Inform customers about necessary repairs or replacements, discuss products, services and costs, include accurate technical information.

Prepare documents with legal value which prove that an installation or a facility is conform to the regulations.

The application of pressurised gas to produce mechanical motion.

Explain technical details to non-technical customers, stakeholders, or any other interested parties in a clear and concise manner.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture braided products while keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.

Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture texturised filament yarns.

Explain and demonstrate the use of training equipment and system functions.

Set up and give commands to a machine by dispatching the appropriate data and input into the (computer) controller corresponding with the desired processed product.

Write records of the repairs and maintenance interventions undertaken, of parts and materials used, and other repair facts.

The efficiency aims and environmental issues posed by challenges in the textile industry.

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Sources

Wage data: Statistics Finland, wage structure statistics, table 15az, year 2024. Read 2.10.2026. Licence CC BY 4.0.

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

How we calculated these figures