Upholstery Technician

Due to continued growth in our business, we have a requirement for an **Upholstery Technician**to join our Team at our **Peterborough, Ontario** location.

**General Accountability**

**Specific Accountabilities**
- Upholstery Technicians fabricate, repair, modify, and refurbish aircraft seats, divans, sidewalls and associated components, including the re-upholstery of panels, liners and sidewalls, to high degrees of finish quality and structural safety.
- Incumbents must demonstrate the ability to work with high-grade leather materials from blueprints, drawings and other illustrations or written work instructions.
- Technicians must plan, prepare and cut materials to standardized patterns for stitching and fitting to customer and engineered requirements.

Upholstery Technicians must demonstrate competency in the following accountabilities:

- Possess all the various skills needed to build and break down a cabin seat.
- This job requires a high attention to detail not only for the purposes of appearance and ergonomics, but also for safety and structural integrity purposes
- May also measure, cut and prepare foam materials used in the upholstery process.
- Familiar with breakdown, building up and troubleshooting of aircraft seats and interior components.
- Ability to strip and recover seats and their components.
- Ability to match, adhere and fasten together materials or components using adhesives.
- Ability to fit, build-up, assemble and finish seating and other upholstered components from materials fabricated and manufactured onsite.
- Possess the ability to cover large monuments such as headliners and sidewalls
- Perform work in a productive, diligent, careful and safe manner.
- Complete any special projects or other tasks as required or assigned. May be assigned to other areas of operations, based on business or customer requirements.
- Works in compliance with all Administrative, Health & Safety policies and procedures as per legislative requirements and as outlined in Company policies.

**Experience and Education Requirements**
- Secondary school diploma required and/or completion of College/CEGEP/technical training in a related field preferred.
- Applicants must have extensive upholstery experience, ideally working with seating and leather materials.
- Experience in an aviation-related field is preferred.

**Skills/Abilities**
- The skill to operate industrial, single, multi-needle sewing machines, sergers, overlocks, piping or binding machines.
- Must be skilled at operating machines to join sections of seating material (typically, leather) as well as other components into finished products used within aircraft interiors.
- Strong mathematical knowledge is required, as is the ability to make accurate measurements and finish materials to a high level of quality and precision.
- Excellent planning, organization and coordination skills.
- Excellent judgment with a strong attention to detail.
- Ability to understand and follow direction with mínimal supervision.
- Proven ability to communicate effectively orally and written.
- Ability to trouble-shoot and problem solve.
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn.
- Self-motivated and able to maintain a rapid pace.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.

**Working Conditions**
- Regular periods during which physical effort is required, e.g., walking, standing, stooping, climbing, lifting material or equipment, some of which may be heavy or awkward.
- Exposure to factors such as temperature variations/extremes, fumes, moving machinery, humidity, and materials which can cause periods of discomfort.
- Frequent need to give concentrated attention, with one or two senses at a time, where stimuli are changing.
- Occasional direct and indirect pressure from deadlines, production quotas, accuracy or similar demands.

**Working Hours**

This is a full-time (FT) position and hours of work or shift patterns may change due to business operational needs. Flexibility is required and at present, the standard hours of work are 7am-4pm, Monday to Friday.

**Compensation