Employment Information
- Post ID: 268091539
- Posted Date: May 6, 2025
- Closing Date: Jul 11, 2025
- Company: Dick's Furniture and Upholstery
- Category: Skilled Trades & Craft
- Business Location:Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Total Views: 201
- Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 5 hours ago
- Job URL: https://tribaljobs.ca/jobs/268091539/alberta/calgary/custom-upholsterer/
Job Details
- Experience: 3 years - 5 years
- Opening Positions: 1
- Remuneration: $24.00 to $26.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 40 to 50 hours per week
- Commencement Date: As soon as possible
- Education: High school graduation certificate
- How to apply: email to [email protected]
Job Description
Tasks
- Discuss upholstery fabric, colour and style with customers
- Provide cost estimate for upholstering furniture or other items
- Replace worn-out webbing, springs and other furniture parts
- Lay out, cut, fabricate and install upholstery
- Tack, glue or sew ornamental trim, braids or buttons
- Repair furniture frames and refinish wood surfaces
- Operate sewing machines or sew by hand
- Garnish the bottom and the back of a seat with interoven rattan
- Replace damaged windows and repair upholstery
Experience and specialization
Type of materials
- Leather
Type of industry experience
- Furniture and fixtures manufacturing company
- Furniture upholstery and repair shop
- Specialty seat manufacturing company
Specialization or experience
- Antique furniture and furnishings
- Seats for stadiums, halls etc.
- Furniture
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Public transportation is available
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Benefits
Other benefits
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Variable or compressed work week