A professional who tends dye jig that passes cloth from one roll to another through vat of dye or other solution to scour, bleach, or dye cloth. Respnsibilities include:

• Mounts roll of cloth on machine, using power hoist.
• Passes cloth under guide rollers in tank to takeup roll. Turns valve to fill tank with water and pours specified quantity of dye into tank or notifies dye-weigher helper to release dye solution to dye machine.
• Sets thermostat to control steam for heating solution.
• Adds chemicals as instructed by supervisor dyer.
• Starts machine that passes cloth through dye bath or chemical solution, reversing direction of cloth until it has passed through solution specified number of times.
• Opens valve to drain solution from machine.
• Fills machine with water and rinses surplus dye from cloth by passing cloth through water as in dyeing.
• Doffs roll of cloth from dye jig, using power hoist.
• May weigh and mix dyes.