A professional who off bears from delivery end of range or machine that dyes, finishes, washes, treats, or dries cloth or other textile goods. Respnsibilities include:

• Observes as cloth winds onto rolls or passes through swing-folding attachment into trucks and notifies supervisor of obvious flaws.
• Measures cloth with ruler and feels cloth discharging from drying cans or tenter frame to verify that cloth meets specifications for width and dryness.
• Moves lever to lower blade that cuts cloth at seams or ravels seams connecting lengths to remove cloth from machine.
• Pushes roll of cloth onto platform or lifts roll from machine brackets, using hoist.
• Places tube on winding shaft and starts cloth winding on tube.
• Replaces filled truck at swing-folding attachment with empty truck to receive folded cloth.
• May wrap cloth roll with burlap.
• May regulate heat of drying cans and flow of water into washboxes by turning valves.
• May be designated according to type of machine as cloth-bleaching-range back-tender; cloth-finishing-range back-tender; cloth-washer back-tender; drying-machine back-tender; dyeing-machine back-tender; tenter-frame back-tender.
• May be designated: cloth-mercerizer back-tender; desizing-machine back-tender; dry-cans back-tender; mangle back-tender; mangle catcher; singer back-tender; soaping-machine back-tender; tire-fabric-impregnating-range back-tender; white-washer piler.