A professional who tends machine that automatically stitches designs to decorate mattress covers and to hold padding in place. Responsibilities include:

• Places spools of thread on spindles and draws ends through guides, tensions, and needle eyes.
• Inserts bobbin in shuttle and draws thread through slot in shuttle wall.
• Clamps covering material and padding in frame and places frame in rack under sewing head of machine.
• Bolts pilot pattern plate on platform beneath frame, using wrench.
• Places pilot or guide bar extending from frame in guide channels of pilot pattern and starts machine.
• May move pilot or guide bar by hand.
• May attach framed cover to pulleys that draw it away from machine as cover is stitched, and guide cover under presser foot by hand to stitch design.