Upholstery - Hand Tufting

ForestSource; Hickory (NC); Sur place; USD 40 000 - 55 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ForestSource is seeking an Upholstery - Hand Tufting specialist to craft high-quality tufted designs according to production tickets. The role involves sewing to frames, applying cotton and borders, and precise fabric work on various arms and backs.

Ideal candidates will have hand tufting experience, strong pattern matching skills, and meticulous craftsmanship, ensuring finished furniture meets premium standards.

Qualifications

• Experience reading production tickets and applying tufting techniques.
• Ability to sew to frame and apply cotton and borders.
• Strong manual dexterity with attention to detail.

Responsabilités

• Create detailed tufted designs per production tickets.
• Sew to frame, cut materials, apply cotton and borders.
• Apply foam, cotton, fabric and borders on arms and backs as directed.
• Align fabric patterns and maintain grain on back of frame.

Connaissances

Hand tufting

Pattern matching

Sewing to frame

Quality craftsmanship

Reading production tickets

Formation

High School Diploma or equivalent

Outils

Air stapler

Description du poste

POSITION: Upholstery - Hand Tufting

A hand tufting upholsterer is responsible for creating detailed, high-quality hand-tufted designs with precision, consistency, and craftsmanship to support premium upholstered furniture production.

They will read and interpret production tickets while applying upholstery techniques including flow matching, center lines, carry-throughs, and four-way lineups. They will upholster pieces by sewing to frames, making cuts, and applying cotton and borders. They will upholster by applying foam, cotton, fabric, and borders on various arm styles. They will upholster backs by aligning fabric patterns and maintaining straight grain. They will ensure finished products meet quality standards.

Essential Functions:

• Create highly detailed tufted designs in accordance with production tickets
• Sews to frame, making cuts, applying cotton, applying borders
• Applies foam and cotton to areas on frame arms and backs, making proper cuts and applying fabric to arms, apply borders as needed, band different kinds of arms (sock, track, panel border arm)
• Apply fabric to back of frame aligning stripes, keeping grain of fabric straight.

Education:

• High School Graduate or equivalent (preferred)

Physical Aspects of the Job:

In a typical day, employee will spend up to 9 hours standing and up to 30 minutes walking.

In a typical work day, the employee will be asked to bend, stoop, push and pull, reach above shoulder level, kneel, balance, crawl or crouch, and may be asked to lift up to 50 pounds.

Employees must use their hands to operate air staplers and to pull and/or stretch fabrics while stapling with the other hand.

Employees must have precise manual dexterity.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time