A professional who tends one or more automatic, multiple-needle sewing machines that quilt layers of material used to make articles, such as work gloves, quilts, or padding. Responsibilities include:

• Places supply packages on thread holders and draws ends through guides, tensions, and needle eyes, using tweezers.
• Inserts bobbins in shuttle and draws thread through guides and looper eyes.
• Pulls boxes of flatfolded material into feeding position or mounts rolls of material onto machine with aid of another worker, using chain hoist or electric lift truck.
• Threads ends of material under yardage counter and needles, and laps end around takeup rod.
• Starts machine and observes material sewn to detect broken threads, uneven edges or wrinkles, and defective stitching or stitch design.
• Rethreads needles, straightens edges of material layers, and regulates tension on material or thread, or notifies maintenance department to adjust machine or alter setup.
• Cuts material when specified yardage has been quilted, using hand shears or electric knife, and doffs roll.
• Replaces defective or broken needles.
• Feels needles to detect rough places and smooths rough area, using sandpaper.
• May unroll bolts of material onto machine table in specified order of layers and draw ends between feeder rollers.