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Our team are among the industry’s most skilled professionals. At Starling Aerospace, we strive to provide dynamic and rewarding career opportunities within a demanding but friendly work environment.
Recognising that it is our people that have built our reputation for excellence within the aviation community, Starling is always receptive to hearing from qualified craftspeople. In response to the growing demand from customers, new vacancies do arise for fabricators, upholsterers, machinists, joiners and CNC operatives. If you’d like the opportunity to join our team in the future, please send your CV and covering letter to jo@fly-sai.com
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Sewing Shop Supervisor
Key responsibilities:
- Proficiency in the operation of industrial sewing machines, including Walking Foot, Flatbeds, and Over-lockers, for the production of leather seat covers, holdalls, and other aviation accessories.
- Develop patterns for new seat covers using existing foams and covers, as well as for accessories like holdalls.
- Productionize the patterns you develop to ensure they are suitable for the entire team, look aesthetically pleasing, and use materials efficiently.
- Manage the sewing shop team to maintain high quality standards and output, including distributing work to machinists based on skill level, providing coaching, and checking quality (e.g., seam width) during work-in-progress (WIP).
Required skills:
- Experience of working with leather is essential
- Top stitching
- Detail sewing
- Twin-needling
- Finishing
Hours:
- 40 hours per week
- Monday to Thursday: 7:30am – 4:30pm
- Friday: 7:30am – 2:00pm
- Overtime as required by the business
“Supporting Cranfield University’s training programme of future aerospace engineers was an exceptionally rewarding undertaking for Starling and one that required a complex array of technical challenges to be overcome, regarding bespoke design, parts manufacture and stringent re-certification. Our team of design engineers and fabricators rose to these challenges with great professionalism and we were very proud to have partnered with Cranfield in support of its endeavours.”