Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that automatically stitches designs to decorate mattress covers and to hold padding in place: Places spools of thread on spindles and draws ends through guides, tensions, and needle eyes.

• 2) Inserts bobbin in shuttle and draws thread through slot in shuttle wall.

• 3) Clamps covering material and padding in frame and places frame in rack under sewing head of machine.

• 4) Bolts pilot pattern plate on platform beneath frame, using wrench.

• 5) Places pilot or guide bar extending from frame in guide channels of pilot pattern and starts machine.

• 6) May move pilot or guide bar by hand.

• 7) May attach framed cover to pulleys that draw it away from machine as cover is stitched, and guide cover under presser foot by hand to stitch design.