Job Description:

• 1) Tends one or more semiautomatic sewing machines that attach, join, reinforce, or decorate garments or garment parts, or perform other preset cycle operations, such as buttonhole making: Threads machine and adjusts thread tensions.

• 2) Positions fabric layers, garment, or garment part in holding device on machine bed or according to guides, edges, or markings, and starts machine.

• 3) Notifies SUPERVISOR, GARMENT MANUFACTURING if machine malfunctions.

• 4) May select supplies, such as fasteners and thread, according to specifications or color of fabric.

• 5) May change needles and oil machine.