Apprentice Sewing Machinist - 14718

SOFAS AND STUFF LTD

Lancashire, PR1 5ST

Closes on Friday 13 December

Posted on 25 September 2024

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Summary

Sofas & Stuff Ltd in Preston are recruiting for an Apprentice Sewing Machinist. The successful candidate will work towards completing a Level 2 Sewing Machinist apprenticeship over the duration of 18 months.

Annual wage
£18,720 a year

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Training course
Sewing machinist (level 2)
Hours
6:45am - 4:45pm Monday - Friday, breaks am/pm (Paid) and 30 min lunch (Unpaid)

40 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 6 January

Duration

1 Year 6 Months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

We are looking for a motivated and dedicated individual to join our team as a sewing machinist apprentice. In this role, you will work alongside experienced craftsman and technicians to learn all details of traditional and modern sewing techniques. Your responsibilities will include:
• Assisting with cutting and sewing fabrics for upholstered furniture pieces,
• learning how to operate and maintain sewing equipment.
• Learn the skills and techniques involved in the assembly of furniture, including piping, making zips, borders and top sewing.
• Understanding quality control procedures and ensuring products meet company standards.

Where you’ll work

Deepdale Mill Street

Preston

Lancashire

PR1 5ST

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

NORTH LANCS. TRAINING GROUP LIMITED(THE)

Your training course

Sewing machinist (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents
  • Follow work instructions for example, specifications, standard operating procedures, and specific instructions.
  • Organise resources for example, equipment, components, and tools.
  • Check working environment for hazards.
  • Apply safe working practices including guards, seat positioning, safety clothing, and manual handling.
  • Apply sustainability principles for example, minimise energy usage and waste.
  • Identify and segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
  • Lay out equipment, components, and resources.
  • Inspect cut or pre-sewn components before sewing; identify and resolve issues.
  • Select and insert needles.
  • Select thread.
  • Fill and insert spool and thread a sewing machine.
  • Select the sewing machine settings.
  • Conduct sewing machine test run for example, pre-production, following threading up, adjustments, or maintenance.
  • Make sewing machine adjustments for example, stitch tension.
  • Operate, monitor, and control a sewing machine for example, lockstitch, linker, blind hemmer, overlocker, cup seam, and coverstitch machine.
  • Control material feed.
  • Conduct quality checks.
  • Identify needle damage.
  • Identify and resolve sewing issues for example, skip stitch, lose stitch, or pucker stitch.
  • Follow post-production procedure for example, re-bundle, bag up, and attach work ticket.
  • Enter information to track work process for example, work dockets, documentation, or electronic tracking system.
  • Select maintenance tools.
  • Remove and replace sewing machine parts for example, the presser foot, throat plate, spool, and spool case.
  • Clean sewing machine and machine parts.
  • Check oil.
  • Use information technology and digital systems for example, real time system or computerised sewing machine settings.
  • Communicate with others for example, other machinists, senior machinists, production staff, supervisors, and team leaders.
  • Report issues for example, product quality and machine faults.
  • Apply team working principles.
  • Identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
  • Monitor own performance.
  • Complete and record learning and development activities.

    • Your training plan

    • Level 2 Sewing Machinist
    • Functional Skills 
    • Work based learning

    Requirements

    Essential qualifications

    GCSE in:

    • English (grade 4)
    • Maths (grade 4)

    Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

    Skills

    • Attention to detail
    • Willing to learn
    • Punctual

    About this company

    Sofas & Stuff Ltd are a leading upholstery manufacturing company specialising in producing high quality upholstered furniture for domestic and commercial clients. With a focus on craftmanship , we strive to create unique and durable pieces of furniture that exceed our customer expectations.

    After this apprenticeship

    Progression onto full time employment 

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    NORTH LANCS. TRAINING GROUP LIMITED(THE)

    Recruitment

    recruitment@nltg.co.uk

    01254 395355

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000279152.

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    Closes on Friday 13 December

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