Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials

Key skills

A typical day

• •Hang, fold, package, and tag finished articles for delivery to customers.
• •Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.
• •Straighten, smooth, or shape materials to prepare them for pressing.
• •Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing.
• •Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons.

Fields of study

Any field