CompGeo Sewers, Hand Salary Survey Benchmark Job Description and Competencies - Manufacturing Occupation Group

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Sewers, Hand

Summary Job Description

Tasks

Sew, join, reinforce, or finish, usually with needle and thread, a variety of manufactured items. Includes weavers and stitchers.

Sew, join, reinforce, or finish parts of articles, such as garments, books, mattresses, toys, and wigs, using needles and thread or other materials.

Trim excess threads or edges of parts, using scissors or knives.

Select thread, twine, cord, or yarn to be used, and thread needles.

Draw and cut patterns according to specifications.

Fold, twist, stretch, or drape material, and secure articles in preparation for sewing.

Smooth seams with heated irons, flat bones, or rubbing sticks.

Measure and align parts, fasteners, or trimmings, following seams, edges, or markings on parts.

Use different sewing techniques such as felling, tacking, basting, embroidery, and fagoting.

Sew buttonholes, or add lace or other trimming.

Wax thread by drawing it through a ball of wax.

Tie, knit, weave or knot ribbon, yarn, or decorative materials.

Soften leather or shoe material with water to prepare it for sewing.

Attach trimmings and labels to articles with cement, using brushes or cement guns.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Sewers, Hand

Important Knowledge Competencies

Competency Description

Customer and Personal Service

Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Design

Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

Sales and Marketing

Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

Production and Processing

Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

Mathematics

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

English Language

Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Sewers, Hand

Important Skill Competencies

Competency Description

Judgment and Decision Making

Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Time Management

Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Complex Problem Solving

Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Sewers, Hand

Important Ability Competencies

Competency Description

Arm-Hand Steadiness

The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

Manual Dexterity

The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

Finger Dexterity

The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

Near Vision

The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Visualization

The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

Control Precision

The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

Information Ordering

The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Category Flexibility

The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

Multilimb Coordination

The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

Problem Sensitivity

The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

Deductive Reasoning

The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Selective Attention

The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

Visual Color Discrimination

The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

Inductive Reasoning

The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Flexibility of Closure

The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.

Perceptual Speed

The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.

Far Vision

The ability to see details at a distance.

Speech Recognition

The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Sewers, Hand

Prerequisite Qualification Category

Education and Experience Level

On-the-Job Training

Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year

On-Site or In-Plant Training

Up to and including 1 month

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Sewers, Hand

Alternate Job Title(s)

Alteration Specialist

Bale Sewer

Baseball Hand Sewer

Beadworker

Casing Sewer

Cloth Bale Header

Coutierier

Custom Clothier

Custom Designer

Custom Seamstress

Decorator

Designer

Dressmaker

Feather Stitcher

Foundation Maker

Hand Finisher

Hand Knitter

Hand Quilter

Hand Sewer

Hand Shoes Sewer

Hand Sole Sewer

Hand Stitcher

Hand Umbrella Tipper

Hand Weaver

Hat Maker

Hat Mender

Hosiery Mender

Knit Goods Mender

Lamp Shade Sewer

Mattress Finisher

Passementerie Worker

Pelota Maker

Seamstress

Thread Marker

Umbrella Tipper

CompGeo Occupation Group: Manufacturing

Job Family: Textile/Apparel/Furnishings

Benchmark Title: Sewers, Hand

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