Presser Position Available In Houston, Alabama
Tallo's Job Summary: Pressers are responsible for operating pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments, shape, or patch articles. They finish garments, treat spots, and use hand irons for high-quality finishes. Pressers also clean and maintain machines, regulate temperature and pressure, and ensure finished articles meet standards. This role requires attention to detail and knowledge of garment properties.
Company:
Penny Profit Cleaners
Salary:
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Job Description
- Hang, fold, package, and tag finished articles for delivery to customers
- Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles
- Straighten, smooth, or shape materials to prepare them for pressing
- Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling or forward them for additional processing
- Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons
- Lower irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed
- Identify and treat spots on garments
- Shrink, stretch, or block articles by hand to conform to original measurements, using forms, blocks, and steam
- Finish fancy garments such as evening gowns and costumes, using hand irons to produce high quality finishes
- Push and pull irons over surfaces of articles to smooth or shape them
- Finish pants, jackets, shirts, skirts, and other dry-cleaned and laundered articles, using hand irons
- Slide material back and forth over heated, metal, ball-shaped forms to smooth and press portions of garments that cannot be satisfactorily pressed with flat pressers or hand irons
- Select appropriate pressing machines, based on garment properties such as heat tolerance
- Spray water over fabric to soften fibers when not using steam irons
- Position materials such as cloth garments, felt, or straw on tables, dies, or feeding mechanisms of pressing machines, or on ironing boards or worktables
- Moisten materials to soften and smooth them
- Clean and maintain pressing machines, using cleaning solutions and lubricants
- Press ties on small pressing machines
- Block or shape knitted garments after cleaning
- Activate and adjust machine controls to regulate temperature and pressure of rollers, ironing shoes, or plates, according to specifications
- Use covering cloths to prevent equipment from damaging delicate fabrics
- Examine and measure finished articles to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as tape measures and micrometers
- Finish velvet garments by steaming them on bucks of hot-head presses or steam tables, and brushing pile (nap) with hand brushes
- Measure fabric to specifications, cut uneven edges with shears, fold material, and press it with an iron to form a heading
- Insert heated metal forms into ties and touch up rough places with hand irons
- Brush materials made of suede, leather, or felt to remove spots or to raise and smooth naps
- Sew ends of new material to leaders or to ends of material in pressing machines, using sewing machines
- Select, install, and adjust machine components, including pressing forms, rollers, and guides, using hoists and hand tools.
