sewing machine operator
Education:
Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. or equivalent experience.
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.
- Use sewing guides and tension devices.
Type of materials:
- Canvas.
- Cotton or synthetic.
- Knits.
- Satin.
- Silk.
Equipment and machinery experience:
- Button holer or button sewer.
- Double needle machine.
- Feller, feed-off arm.
- Fusing machine.
- Hemmer or blindstitcher.
- Industrial sewing machine.
- Multi-needle machine.
- Piping or binding machine.
- Profile stitcher or pocket machine.
- Seamer, automatic.
- Serger or overlock.
- Single needle machine.
- Tacker or bartack.
Sewing experience:
- Commercial.
- Domestic.
- Garment section work.
- Piecework.
- Semi-section garment work.
- Whole garment.
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Ability to distinguish between colours.
- Attention to detail.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Manual dexterity.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Sitting.
- Standing for extended periods.
Personal suitability:
- Accurate.
- Judgement.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
Screening questions:
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?.
Experience:
2 years to less than 3 years.
Support for newcomers and refugees:
Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.) . Does not require Canadian work experience.
Support for youths:
Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth.
Support for mature workers:
Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination .
Supports for visible minorities:
Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.).