The Creel Operator is responsible for the timely and accurate setup, maintenance, and replenishment of yarn packages on the warping creel. This role is critical to maintaining continuous and efficient yarn supply to the warping or beaming machines, ensuring yarn traceability, and upholding quality standards. The operator must be diligent, safety-focused, and capable of performing repetitive tasks with high attention to detail. The rate of pay for this position is $22/hour. 

1. Creeling Operations and Setup:

• Load, Prep, and Tie Yarn Spools: Load new yarn packages (cones, spools) onto the creel according to the specified pattern, density, and color sequence required by the work order.
• Tie-Ins: Perform high-quality knots to splice new yarn packages to exhausted ones, ensuring minimum disruption and maximum strength.
• Tension Control: Adjust and monitor individual yarn package tensions to ensure uniformity and prevent breaks or defects during the warping process.
• Safety and Traceability: Follow all standard operating procedures (SOPs) for creel setup and maintain strict traceability by recording lot numbers, dye lots, and creel location data.

2. Quality Control and Troubleshooting:

• Defect Identification: Visually inspect yarn packages for defects, damage, or contamination before loading and during creeling.
• Break Management: Promptly identify and repair yarn breaks and loose ends to prevent quality issues on the warp beam.
• Waste Reduction: Minimize yarn waste (remnants) by properly doffing and storing empty yarn packages.

3. Safety and Housekeeping:

• Safety First: Adhere to all safety protocols, including LOTO (Lock-out/Tag-out) procedures when working on the creel and maintaining clear aisles.
• Area Cleanliness: Maintain a clean, organized, and safe working environment around the creel and yarn staging areas, managing empty cones and packaging materials.
• Equipment Care: Perform routine cleaning and minor preventative maintenance on creel components, tensioners, and guides.

• This position will cross-train with the Warping Team and act as a backup as needed.

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience: Previous experience in a textile manufacturing environment, preferably with creeling, winding, or warping equipment, is preferred.
• Physical Requirements:
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods.
• Ability to frequently lift and load yarn packages weighing up to 15-25 lbs.
• Excellent hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity for knotting and threading.
• Ability to work at heights using ladders or lifts.
• Forklift certification preferred but not required.

Key Competencies

• Attention to Detail: Meticulous focus on yarn placement, knot quality, and pattern adherence

More About Filtration Group

Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action.   

The Company began in 2009 and has rapidly grown organically and through a thoughtful acquisition strategy to be a global leader in the highly attractive filtration industry. Filtration Group has the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry and has had a particular focus on building a leading platform of solutions focused on the Life Sciences and Indoor Air Quality end markets which are rapidly growing in the current market environment. Filtration Group produces mission critical products with high replacement rates.  Over 80 percent of the Company’s revenue comes from replacement / consumable products, many of which are specified into customer’s products or processes.  With revenues over $2 billion, Filtration Group is consistently recognized as the fastest growing and one of the largest filtration businesses in the world and has a global footprint of 141 facilities in 28 countries. Filtration Group has over 10,000 employees who are united in their Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.