95105 Labourers in textile processing and cutting

What this occupation covers

Labourers in textile processing perform a variety of manual duties to assist in processing fibres into yarn or thread, or to assist in weaving, knitting, bleaching, dyeing or finishing textile fabrics or other textile products. Labourers in textile cutting cut fabric, fur, or leather to make parts for garments, linens, shoes and other articles. Labourers in textile processing and cutting are employed by clothing and textile manufacturers and other manufacturers of fabric products such as leather and fur.

Official main duties

The NOC profile lists 15 main duties for this code.

• Load and off-load machines
• Clean textile machines and work areas
• Push carts, trucks, or cans of fibres from one work area to another
• Assist machine operators and other textile workers as required.
• Place patterns on top of layers of fabric and cut fabric using electric or manual knives, cutters or computer numerically controlled (CNC) cutting devices
• Adjust cutting technique to type of fabric and style of garment
• May cut fabric samples.
• Cut fur skins in diagonal strips to specified length and shape of pelt using furrier's knives and cutters
• Number pelts to indicate their location on pattern
• May sort or match skins, and may prepare fur samples.
• Select leather and cutting dies for leather goods and shoe parts according to specifications
• Position leather on cutting bed of machine, maximizing usage according to skin grain, skin flaws and skin stretch
• Operate clicker or punch press to stretch leather
• Operate machine to strip and cut leather or cut single leather skins by hand to make leather products
• May cut leather samples.

Do not copy these lines into your reference letter. The letter has to describe what you actually did, in your employer’s words. DUTYPROOF flags wording lifted from the NOC as something to review, and an officer reading a letter that mirrors the NOC reads it the same way.

What DUTYPROOF screens for

This is DUTYPROOF’s screening threshold, not IRCC’s decision. For this NOC, screening requires at least 3 of its 15 official duties to be evidenced in your own words, plus the required letter elements. IRCC asks that you performed the actions in the occupation’s lead statement and a substantial number of its main duties — so treat the duty coverage as the number that matters, not the badge.

Codes this one is confused with

The NOC profile names these itself. Choosing the wrong code of a look-alike pair is the most common way genuine work experience fails to establish eligibility.

• 63220 Shoe repairers and shoemakers
• 92024 Supervisors, other products manufacturing and assembly
• 92015 Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing
• 64200 Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and milliners
• 63221 Upholsterers

Excluded from this code

• Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing (See 9413 Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing)
• Shoe repairers and shoemakers (See 63220 Shoe repairers and shoemakers)
• Supervisors, other products manufacturing and assembly (See 92024 Supervisors, other products manufacturing and assembly)
• Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing (See 92015 Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing)
• Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and milliners (See 64200 Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and milliners)
• Upholsterers (See 63221 Upholsterers)

Job titles filed under this code

A title on this list does not by itself put your experience in this code — the duties in your letter decide that.

bale checker - textile processing · battery loader - textile processing · beam warper helper - textile processing · bias-cutting machine tender - fabric, fur and leather products manufacturing · bleacher helper - textile processing · bobbin changer - textile processing · bobbin cleaner - textile processing · bobbin collector - textile processing · bobbin processor · bobbin scraper - textile processing · bobbin sorter - textile processing · calender helper - textile processing · can doffer - textile processing · canvas cutter - fabric products manufacturing · carding machine cleaner - textile processing · chainer - textile processing · cloth carrier · cloth cutter - fabric products manufacturing · cloth offbearer · cloth turner · cloth winder · cloth-cutting machine operator - fabric products manufacturing · clothing cutter - clothing manufacturing · cloth-printing machine helper

Employment requirements

• Some secondary school education may be required.
• Experience as a fabric, fur or leather cutter is required for fabric, fur or leather sample cutters.
• On-the-job training is provided for some occupations in this unit group.