Total Safety is looking for a Sewing Machine Technician to add to their safety conscious team.
Position summary: Provide quality sewing needs and complete customer orders as needed.
General purpose: Timely orders; customer satisfaction
Role qualifications :

• Good communication skills
• Home or professional sewing machine experience
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists
• Ability to pass drug and alcohol test

Position responsibilities:

• Attention to detailed work order instructions
• Monitor sewing machine operation to spot problems such as defective stitching, thread breaks, or machine malfunctions
• Inspect garments to spot manufacturer defects so not to send out defective clothing
• Select sewing supplies like threads in accordance with job requirements
• Mount sewing machine attachments like needles and threads.

Essential skills and experience:

• High organizational skills to sort
• High mechanical dexterity to operate sewing machines
• Good command of the English language, both verbal and written
• Able to repeat same tasks
• Able to be very exact and highly accurate with spelling of names

Nonessential skills and experience:

• Previous sewing machine operation experience

Reporting to this position: None
Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to sit long periods of time; stand; bend; considerable use of the arms and legs, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to potential hazards using needle and sewing machine operation. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.

About Total Safety:
Total Safety is the world's premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, comprehensive flare services, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management.
Total Safety is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.
If you require special assistance or accommodation while seeking employment with Total Safety, please contact Human Resources at (713) 353-5152. (For telecommunications device for the hearing impaired – TTY, please contact 711).