Job Description:

• 1) Tends semiautomatic sewing machines that cut and stitch buttonholes and sew buttons and other fasteners to garments: Pours buttons into hopper for automatic feeding into holding clamp of sewing machine or places buttons and fasteners in clamp.

• 2) Turns knobs to adjust stitching and cutting mechanisms of machine to set size of buttonholes according to garment styles.

• 3) Positions garment, garment parts, buttons, or fasteners under needle, and starts short-cycle sewing machine that cuts and stitches buttonholes in garment or parts or sews buttons and fasteners to garment.

• 4) Cuts threads, using scissors.