Sewer - 1st Shift - Conover, NC

Sewer I - Conover

Performs and has primary responsibility for operations of single and double needle, top stitch, boarder, and serge machines, including, but not limited to, complex set up, adjustments, and operation of various sewing machines. Ability to produce quality (as defined by Haworth quality standards) complex parts per blueprints, product orders, and engineering specifications, within tolerance. Performs necessary quality checks, practices machine preventive maintenance, and performs general utility work to meet work schedule.

Essential Functions:

• Performs duties to ensure department and plant meet daily and weekly work load requirements.
• Performs inspections and additional quality checks per inspection instructions, utilizing precision measuring instruments, such as ruler, and tape measure ensuring Haworth quality specifications are met.
• May repair flaws in product, evaluate errors and present findings to the department supervisor.
• Ability to sew on one or more of the following; single needle (flat stitch machine), top stitch machine or double needle machine. Produces quality sewn sets out of fabric and vinyl.
• Follows all safety requirements and communicates any safety concerns.
• Participates with physical activities, engages in exercises to be more agile to move around.
• Maintains safety and cleanliness of work area by performing various housekeeping duties, including work center preventive maintenance.
• Frequently loads, unloads, pulls, and/or positions materials/parts, weighing up to 20 pounds, occasionally more (assistance given with heavier objects by work partner[s]), requiring bending, lifting, reaching, pulling, pushing, and/or twisting.
• Completes appropriate paperwork.
• Performs all duties as assigned to ensure department and plant meet daily and weekly production requirements.
• Flexes work schedule as business demands; may work more than eight hours per day and/or forty hours per week, including weekends and/or holidays.
• Rotates through department work centers based on business need.
• Works overtime as needed.
• Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

Do you meet these qualifications?

Education:

High school graduate or equivalent (equivalent is defined as equivalent degree OR job-specific work experience OR combination of education and job-specific work experience; three years job-specific work experience equals one year of formal education). Up to twelve months' on-the-job training required.

Work Requirements and

Experience:

Two years' experience with operating industrial sewing machines.

Environmental and Physical Demands:
Frequent exposure to dust, noise, solvent, heat, paint, and lubricants. Large machinery and equipment used in work area. Eye protection required; hearing protection may be required. Lifts material/product weighing up to 50 pounds, occasionally more, and/or moves material/product weighing various amounts (assistance given with heavier objects). Walks, bends, twists, turns, and lifts while performing functions of position. Constant mental and visual alertness required to avoid potential serious injury to self and others in work group.

Applicants must possess an unrestricted right to work in the US to be eligible for the position.