Upholstery - Hand Tufting

A hand tufting upholsterer is responsible for creating detailed, high-quality hand-tufted designs with precision, consistency, and craftsmanship to support premium upholstered furniture production.

They will read and interpret production tickets while applying upholstery techniques including flow matching, center lines, carry-throughs, and four-way lineups. They will upholster pieces by sewing to frames, making cuts, and applying cotton and borders. They will upholster by applying foam, cotton, fabric, and borders on various arm styles. They will upholster backs by aligning fabric patterns and maintaining straight grain.

They will ensure finished products meet quality standards.

• Create highly detailed tufted designs in accordance with production tickets
• Sews to frame, making cuts, applying cotton, applying borders
• Applies foam and cotton to areas on frame arms and backs, making proper cuts and applying fabric to arms, apply borders as needed, band different kinds of arms (sock, track, panel border arm)
• Apply fabric to back of frame aligning stripes, keeping grain of fabric straight.

• High School Graduate or equivalent (preferred)

In a typical day, employee will spend up to 9 hours standing and up to 30 minutes walking.

In a typical work day, the employee will be asked to bend, stoop, push and pull, reach above shoulder level, kneel, balance, crawl or crouch, and may be asked to lift up to 50 pounds.

Employees must use their hands to operate air staplers and to pull and/or stretch fabrics while stapling with the other hand.

Employees must have precise manual dexterity.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time