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Job summary
A leading manufacturing company in Gqeberha is seeking an experienced candidate for trim cover development. The role involves developing and optimizing sewing processes, ensuring quality standards, and requires 5+ years of relevant experience. Applicants should have qualifications in 2D CAD, be PC literate, and ideally have knowledge in German. This position offers a dynamic work environment focused on manufacturing quality.
Qualifications
- Relevant qualification in 2D CAD or 2D drawings.
- PC literacy in MS Office applications.
- Working knowledge of German is advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Develop trim covers for manufacturing and quality approval.
- Create paper templates and digitize patterns.
- Verify and optimize sewing processes.
- Assist with BOM verifications and sewing problems.
- Review and ensure quality in seat construction.
Skills
Education
Tools
- Developing trim covers to optimize the sewing process for manufacturing and obtain quality approval from the OEM customer.
- Strip sample seats/trim covers and make paper templates for each cut panel
- Digitize each paper panel and ensure all technical details are correct
- Plot patterns on a 1:1 scale, ID each pattern by material type and add sewing borders
- Confirm sewing process steps (Process flow diagram)
- Verify sew line distances by simulating sewing start to end on Accumark or AutoCad software or manually comparing 2D templates
- Hand optimized digital or paper patterns over for marker making and CNC cutting
- Construct bill of material for each trim cover showing hang on parts
- Sew trim covers or review sewing process to ensure optimized sewing process
- Built seat or review seat building process to review the quality of the complete seat
- Change patterns after build review to improve sewing and quality concerns
- Repeat steps until the sewing process and seat quality is approved.
- Ensure notches and direction constraints are shown on patterns
- Ensure templates are correctly identified and stored by trim option
- Assist with BOM verifications
- Assist with day to day sewing problems
- Relevant qualification ( 2D CAD or 2D drawings)
- PC literacy is essential, relating to MS Outlook, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Word and Excel.
- Working knowledge of the German language would be an advantage.
- Must be a self-starter, a team player, positive, self-motivated and be able to work under pressure.
- 5 years minimum relevant experience is essential.
- Preference will be given to candidates who have relevant seat trim development experience.
- An assertive individual with strong problem-solving sills in a trim/sewing manufacturing environment is essential.
- Accumark/pattern making software experience would be advantageous.
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