Job Opening: Sewing Machine Operator

Sewing Machine Operator

Mon-Friday 6am-2:30pm

Sewing Machine Operator Responsibilities

• Must be able to use a variety of high-speed sewing machines (at least four) to assemble a limited variety of products or sub-assemblies of small, light to average weight parts following standard procedures.

• Assemble and fit parts to close tolerances. Requires aligning, fitting, and adjusting parts to meet requirements. Refer to drawing specifications as guide for performing assembly tasks.

• Places spool of thread on spindle of machine, and threads thread through machine guides, tensions, and eye of needle.

• Inserts bobbin into shuttle, and guides thread through slot in shuttle wall, or draws thread through guide and looper eye.

• Presses knee lever, depresses pedal, or moves hand lever to raise presser foot or spread feed cups. • Positions parts to be joined under presser foot and needle and lowers presser foot.

• Starts, stops, and controls speed of machine, using pedal or knee lever.

• Guides parts under needle, using fingers and hands, and following edges, seams, guides on machine bed, or markings on part.

• Observes stitching to detect defects and notifies supervisor or sewing machine repairer when defects are caused by machine malfunction.

• May select sewing supplies, such as binding, braid, cord, piping, tape, thread, or welt, according to specifications or color of material.

• May oil machine, change needles, or secure modifying attachments to machine. Machine Operator

Responsibilities: This person will be on our production floor helping make mattresses and packaging them for shipment. They will help in whatever area needed. This may include operating the turning machine (turning the mattress covers right side to be stuffed with mattress cores), the stuffing machine (machine that stuffs cotton/poly/foam mattress cores into the mattress cover), and boxing (building/taping cardboard boxes, filling them, stacking boxes on pallets and shrink wrapping them with shrink wrap machine)