Job Description:

• 1) Assembles leather products, such as coin purses, handbags, keycases, pocket secretaries, or wallets, performing any combination of following duties: Turns handbag inside out and presses inner folds against flat-edged rod to sharpen creases.

• 2) Punches holes in leather to facilitate attaching straps, snaps, or trim, using awl or perforating machine.

• 3) Attaches buttons, clasps, straps, or trim to leather parts, using eyelet machine.

• 4) Folds and creases or pleats edges, using scissors, creasing iron, hammer, or folding bone.

• 5) Applies cement to edges or parts, and presses parts together to secure parts.

• 6) May sew edges or parts, using sewing machine.

• 7) May select and match materials to assemble.

• 8) May be designated according to article assembled as Assembler, Handbags; Coin-Purse Assembler; Keycase Assembler; Pocket-Secretary Assembler; Wallet Assembler.