Upholstery Pattern Maker
2 days ago
Wyoming
Job Description Pattern Maker Job Summary: We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Pattern Maker to support our Cutting, Sewing, and Upholstery teams in developing, maintaining, and improving patterns for all soft-goods across our furniture product lines. This role is critical for ensuring high-quality upholstery fit, manufacturability, and repeatable results. This role will report to the Upholstery Supervisor with a strong dotted line to engineering. Pattern Maker Responsibilities: • Create, revise, and maintain physical and digital patterns for upholstery, fabric, and vinyl components across a wide variety of SKUs, • Develop patterns that ensure consistent fit, high quality, and manufacturability, • Translate engineering drawings and product specifications into workable sewing and upholstery templates, • Maintain an organized pattern library, ensuring version control and accessibility, • Create and support a fabric testing approval process for incoming customer orders, • Partner with Sewing, Cutting, and Upholstery teams to verify pattern functionality during prototype builds and production trials, • Validate yield efficiency and assist with fabric/vinyl nesting improvements, • Troubleshoot pattern-related issues impacting quality, fit, or takt time, • Provide shop floor support to operators, adjusting patterns as required, • Collaborate with Product Engineering and Upholstery Operators to translate design intent into feasible patterning solutions Must be able to work additional mandatory OVERTIME on **Saturdays from4AM – NOON. **(8 hours occasionally on Saturday) * Starting pay is $26-35/HR depending on experience + PAY INCREASE after 90 Days! Pattern Maker Qualifications: • 5+ years of experience in upholstery, pattern making, sewing technology, and cut-and-sew manufacturing, • Understanding of fabric behavior, stretch, grain, and vinyl construction, • Proficient in manual pattern drafting and template production, • Ability to read engineering drawings and convert 3D shapes into accurate 2D patterns, • Strong collaboration and communication skills, • High attention to detail and craftsmanship, • Experience in furniture, automotive, marine, or similar upholstery industries, • Familiarity with CAD-based patterning tools (AutoCAD, Gerber, Optitex, Eastman, etc.), • Prototype build or upholstery construction experience