Production Sewer Level 1 & 2

The Sewer is responsible for operating industrial sewing machines to produce high-quality specialty stitch products, primarily decorating caps with patches and other materials. This role ensures accuracy by following design sheets and work orders, while maintaining consistent quality and throughput. Duties include threading and adjusting machines, performing routine maintenance, and detecting defective materials. The position requires strong attention to detail, effective communication skills, and the ability to work flexibly across different lines and tasks.

Success in this role is measured by production quality, spoilage levels, and efficiency in meeting throughput standards.

• Operates various industrial sewing machines
• Sew decorations on caps, including patches made of leather, cloth or other material
• Using design sheet as reference, ensure that all orders coincide with work orders
• Detect and report defective materials or questionable conditions to the shift supervisor
• Maintain the work area and equipment in a clean orderly condition and follow prescribed safety regulations
• Perform prescribed preventative maintenance on machines as required by the Facilities Coordinator and Production Manager
• Familiarity with the basic machine functions in order to perform the tasks stated above
• Thread machine –must be able to adjust tension and threads and perform basic machine adjustments.
• Ability to meet production quality and throughput. Level 1-2 based on Spoilage and throughput.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Operates various industrial sewing machines
• Sew decorations on caps, including patches made of leather, cloth or other material
• Using design sheet as reference, ensure that all orders coincide with work orders
• Detect and report defective materials or questionable conditions to the shift supervisor
• Maintain the work area and equipment in a clean orderly condition and follow prescribed safety regulations
• Perform prescribed preventative maintenance on machines as required by the Facilities Coordinator and Production Manager
• Familiarity with the basic machine functions in order to perform the tasks stated above
• Thread machine –must be able to adjust tension and threads and perform basic machine adjustments.
• Ability to meet production quality and throughput. Level 1-2 based on Spoilage and throughput.

Requirements

• Effective communication skills. Helpful to have a good command of the English language, both written and spoken
• Ability to read and interpret product sheets, use simple math, and use basic hand held measuring tools
• Flexibility and willingness to rotate lines and jobs within area

Training Requirements

• General Safety
• Quality Assurance Awareness

Physical Demands

• Light to moderate physical effort required.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee frequently is required to use hand to finger, feel objects, tools, or controls. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Personal Protective Equipment

• Ear protection is optional.

Work Environment

• Work performed in a temperature regulated production environment.
• Exposed to light noise, may utilize air pods or hearing protection as desired

Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed or assigned.

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries:
  Apparel Manufacturing