Role Responsibilities

• Monitoring machine operations to detect problems such as defective stitching, breaks in thread or machine malfunctions
• Operating stitching machines to sew leather parts together for leather garments, handbags, gloves or similar items
• Tending semiautomatic sewing machines with multiple-sewing heads controlled by pattern chains that embroider various designs on garments
• Performing equipment maintenance tasks such as replacing needles
• Operating machines such as single or double needle sergers and flat-bed felling machines to automatically join, reinforce or decorate material or articles
• Operating fur sewing machines to join fur pelt strips to required size and shape and join pelts into garment sections or shells
• Attaching buttons, hooks, zippers, fasteners or other accessories to fabric, using feeding hoppers or clamp holders
• Operating or tending sewing machines to perform garment sewing operations such as joining, reinforcing, seaming or decorating garments or garment parts