Upholsterer

Being an Upholsterer, you will be required to work in anyone of a wide range of production environments. Workplaces can be a variety of size from small work-shops through to large commercial factories; either way you will need to be able to work independentlyand as a part of team.

Duties of an upholsterer, within the bed department, could include:

- Prepare frames for upholstery including adding different densities of foams and fibres
- Using a wide range of spring systems including serpentine, super loop, box spring units
- Working with a large range of materials including fabrics and leathers
- Cutting various materials for ready for upholstery
- Patten matching fabrics within tolerance
- Using a range of trimmings and finishing’s including buttons, facings, piping and decorative studs
- Using wide range compressed air equipment including clip, frame, staple, pin and vertex guns
- Use a range of hand tools including scissors, shears, staple lifter, tin snips, hammers mallets and pincers
- Cutting materials with templates
- Good housekeeping and general labouring duties
- Good organisation workloads ready production
- Working as part of a team on piece work production

Hours

0700 - 1600 Monday - Thursday

0700 - 1200 Friday

If you would like to know any more about the Upholsterer position please get in touch.