Responsibilities

Tasks

• Perform minor repairs and adjustments to equipment
• Operate machines to join sections of garments or other articles into finished products on a piece-work or production basis
• Operate sewing machines or sew by hand
• Set in sleeves, pockets, collars and other garment pieces

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• Button holer or button sewer
• Double needle machine
• Fusing machine
• Hemmer or blindstitcher
• Multi-needle machine
• Profile stitcher or pocket machine
• Serger or overlock
• Single needle machine

Sewing experience

• Garment section work
• Piecework