Manufacturing and utilities
Sewing machine operator
$18.25 to $21.00 hourly
Pay is about the local median for this work ($20.00 an hour; Job Bank, 2023–2024)
What the posting asks for
Job Bank's data for this posting doesn't list requirements. The full ad is on Job Bank.
Hours and terms
- Full time, Permanent employment
Usually needed for this kind of work
- Some secondary school education is usually required.
- Experience operating a sewing machine is usually required.
- On-the-job training may be provided.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Industrial sewing machine operators (NOC 94132). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- Assemble pieces of garments by matching patterns and dye lots
- Operate single, double or multi-needle serging, flat bed felling, banding and other sewing machines, to join sections of garments or other articles into finished products on a piece-work or production basis
- Operate fur sewing machines to join fur pelt strips to required size and shape and join pelts into garment sections or shells
- Operate stitching machines to sew leather parts together for leather garments, handbags, shoes and other leather articles
- Operate serging machines to sew and overcast edges of material simultaneously
- Operate tackers, pocketsetters, buttonhole makers and fusing, hemmer and other machines to perform various operations in the fabrication of garments and other articles
About the employer
- Region: Lower Mainland–Southwest Region
Job Bank's search for this title and town usually shows this ad first.
From Job Bank.