Upholstery Technician (YPQ)

Flexjet LLC; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aviation company based in Peterborough is seeking skilled Upholstery Technicians to join their team. In this role, you will fabricate, repair, and refurbish high-quality leather and fabric interiors for aircraft. Ideal candidates will possess extensive upholstery experience and strong attention to detail. Successful candidates must work safely and efficiently, adhering to health and safety policies. Technical training in upholstery and experience in an aviation setting is preferred.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have extensive upholstery experience, preferably with seating and leather materials.
• Experience in an aviation-related field is preferred.
• Completion of technical training in a related field is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Fabricate, repair, modify, and refurbish aircraft seats and components.
• Work with high-grade leather materials from blueprints and instructions.
• Plan, prepare, and cut materials to standardized patterns.

Skills

Operating industrial sewing machines

Attention to detail

Ability to work from blueprints

Mathematical knowledge

Education

Secondary school diploma

Technical training in upholstery

Tools

Sewing machines

Binding machines

Job description

Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

Flexjet, an award-winning organization, is looking to add talented Upholstery Technicians to the team! These technicians will work with beautiful, high-quality fabric and leather to curate bespoke interiors for Flexjet's fleet of aircraft.

This position is located at our Peterborough, Ontario facility.

General Accountability

Upholstery Technicians are expected to work safely and efficiently at all times. Candidates should have general knowledge of aircraft cabinets and components, including repairing, modifying, refurbishing, and fabricating aircraft seating and interior components including stripping and re-covering existing interior coverings.

Specific Accountabilities

• Upholstery Technicians fabricate, repair, modify, and refurbish aircraft seats, divans, sidewalls and associated components, including the re-upholstery of panels, liners and sidewalls, to high degrees of finish quality and structural safety.
• Incumbents must demonstrate the ability to work with high-grade leather materials from blueprints, drawings and other illustrations or written work instructions.
• Technicians must plan, prepare and cut materials to standardized patterns for stitching and fitting to customer and engineered requirements.

Upholstery Technicians must demonstrate competency in the following accountabilities:

• Possess all the various skills needed to build and break down a cabin seat.
• This job requires a high attention to detail not only for the purposes of appearance and ergonomics, but also for safety and structural integrity purposes
• May also measure, cut and prepare foam materials used in the upholstery process.
• Familiar with breakdown, building up and troubleshooting of aircraft seats and interior components.
• Ability to strip and recover seats and their components.
• Ability to match, adhere and fasten together materials or components using adhesives.
• Ability to fit, build-up, assemble and finish seating and other upholstered components from materials fabricated and manufactured onsite.
• Possess the ability to cover large monuments such as headliners and sidewalls
• Perform work in a productive, diligent, careful and safe manner.
• Complete any special projects or other tasks as required or assigned. May be assigned to other areas of operations, based on business or customer requirements.
• Works in compliance with all Administrative, Health & Safety policies and procedures as per legislative requirements and as outlined in Company policies.

Experience and Education Requirements

• Secondary school diploma required and/or completion of College/CEGEP/technical training in a related field preferred.
• Applicants must have extensive upholstery experience, ideally working with seating and leather materials.
• Experience in an aviation-related field is preferred.

Skills/Abilities

• The skill to operate industrial, single, multi-needle sewing machines, sergers, overlocks, piping or binding machines.
• Must be skilled at operating machines to join sections of seating material (typically, leather) as well as other components into finished products used within aircraft interiors.
• Candidates must be able to understand and work from blueprints as well as other written instructions and design specifications.
• Strong mathematical knowledge is required, as is the ability to