Development Upholsterer: Prototyping, Patterning & Fabrication

Whitemeadow Furniture Limited

Sutton-in-Ashfield

Hybrid

GBP 26,000 - 36,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Whitemeadow Furniture Limited is seeking an experienced Development Upholsterer to join our on-site team in Sutton-in-Ashfield. You will take concepts from bare frames to presentation prototypes, then develop and proof all pieces for production upholstery tracks.

You’ll pattern up, document dimensions, weights and materials, and create detailed guides for upholstering. Strong lean manufacturing sense and problem-solving are key.

Qualifications

Experience in upholstery development and patterning.

Responsibilities

Liaising / collaborating with all members of the development team, set up team and designers.
Turning a bare frame into a presentation prototype.
Patterning up, and providing fabrication details, of all tacking kits and fabric patterns.
Recording all details of each development. Measurements, weights, specifications, components used, sundries required, etc.
Producing step by step details (photographs) of how to upholster the furniture.
Looking at frame construction and advising of any changes required.
Simplifying and standardising processes wherever possible in line with lean manufacturing.
Problem solving, trouble shooting, and coming up with new methods
Questioning and advising of any problem areas encountered. Offering alternative suggestions.
Any cutting work where necessary.
Cushion filling, buttoning, tufting etc and dressing where necessary.

Skills

Upholstery experience

Job description

You’ll pattern up, document dimensions, weights and materials, and create detailed guides for upholstering. Strong lean manufacturing sense and problem-solving are key.

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