Texas Furniture Upholstery Specialist

Furniture Upholstery Specialist

Austin's Couch Potatoes Factory needs upholsterers and furniture builders! Do you have furniture building experience? Can you skillfully upholster sofas, chairs, and other furniture pieces? We are looking for you! Are you inexperienced with furniture but enjoy working in assembly and manufacturing? Do you want to begin a long-term career with a promising, quickly growing local furniture company? Then you should apply for this career!

Definition of Upholstery: The art of providing furniture, (especially seats) with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. An apprentice upholsterer is sometimes called an outsider or trimmer. Traditional upholstery uses materials like springs, animal hair, or feathers, synthetic fibers, straw, and wadding, etc., and is done by hand, building each layer up.

Key Responsibilities:

• Upholster custom furniture according to product specifications
• Works as part of a team to meet or exceed production goals
• Multi-task and be comfortable in a fast pace, manufacturing environment
• Learn additional functions by cross-training in other departments, as needed
• Maintain a clean and safe work environment

Great pay based on experience and skill level. We want the best! Full-time work is available immediately. Sign-on Bonus for experienced qualified candidates!

Benefits:

• Paid Holidays
• Paid Vacation
• Medical Benefits
• Dental Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Gym Membership Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts on Furniture
• Wellness Resources
• Performance Bonus
• New Employee Referral Bonus

Basic Job Skills and Requirements:

Able to perform physically demanding job duties which require a consistent and energetic individual.

Able to learn and practice all safety policies and procedures

Able to stand, walk, kneel, bend over, squat for a minimum of 8 hours each shift without restrictions. (Typical 8 hour shift/ 40 hour work week)

Able to lift objects 20lbs - 100lbs (team and solo lifting required for different tasks).

Able to push and pull furniture carts and dollies

Able to follow safety procedures when using various tools and equipment

Able to use machinery in a safe manner

Able to use a measuring tape properly

Able to learn all aspects of a "Purchase Order"

Able to maintain a clean and safe working environment

Able to properly store and identify necessary tools and equipment in the work area.

Able to work in a non-climatized environment (No HVAC) with dust and noise.

Able to communicate as necessary to receive and share information with other co workers.

This position requires the use of various tools & supplies which we provide:

• Measuring tape
• Scissors
• Staple puller
• Needle nose pliers
• Hammer
• Rubber hammer
• Vice grips
• Wire cutters
• Chalk
• Marker
• Staple gun
• Air compressor
• Glue gun
• Drill and bits
• Oscillating saw
• Hand Saw
• Upholstery glue

Daily Responsibilities required for this position (In sequence):

• Inspect sofa frame for flaws and accuracy, Repair frame if needed
• Knock down all of the corners (trim portions of wood frame with basic tools as needed)
• Begin with webbing, precut to exact length as indicated on webbing chart
• Staple the webbing to the frame
• Staple the black cambric canvas to the frame covering the webbing
• Use scraps as much as possible
• Staple the cardboard on the inside of the arms, use the pattern associated with each sofa model
• Use the auto matrix cutter to cut the appropriate sizes of dacron for each model
• The dacron is glued to the deck, the arms will be stapled
• Upholster the deck, stapling the fabric to the frame
• Select the correct bundle of upholstery fabric once a frame is ready for upholstery
• Staple the dacron on the arms
• Measure the placement of the shoulder and make appropriate cuts to the inside of the arms
• Put the fabric over the arms
• Place the inside back into position and secure with staples
• Place the outside back fabric into position and staple it into position
• Place cardboard strip under the outside back lip and cut to appropriate point and staple
• Place a strip of webbing down the middle and close up with tack strips
• Turn the couch upside down on the sawhorses and staple everything to the bottom
• Place dust cover material to the bottom of the sofa and cut to appropriate size then staple into place
• Place…