Job Description:

• 1) Fabricates luggage hardware according to blueprint specifications for use as patterns in quantity production: Lays out design on metal, following specifications, and cuts, forms, and assembles finished parts, using hand and machine metalworking tools.

• 2) Verifies dimensions of assembled parts against specifications, using calipers and other precision measuring instruments.

• 3) Fastens assembled hardware to sample luggage, adjusting parts to ensure function of hinges, locks, and closures.

• 4) Alters hardware according to changes in specifications.

• 5) May submit finished luggage sample to customer for approval.

• 6) May design hardware.