seamstress seeks management position

I am a sewing machine operator, with experience with, multi needle, chain stitch, lock stitch, hydroalic controlled-needle positions, bartackers, merrow machines (for putting the edging on patches), sergers and long arms.

I can do minor repairs, such as replacing needles, getting skips out of a chain stitch machine, as well as make it chain.  In the past month, I found 2 things wrong with my machine that needed the tech to fix, and he did that in 5-10 min each saving over 3-4 hours of down time for each repair (like replacing a shaft in a 42" long arm).

I'm less concerned with hitting my numbers (as a sewer, yes I realize that it also is how you spell the plumbing) then I am in making sure that my department is running smoothly.  Doing Prep, moving people around to keep the work flowing, and above all, Cross-training.  I would train everyone in everyone else's job, if even for a day, so that if anyone is out sick, someone can fill in for them, and the work gets out.

I've been a supervisior before, my last supervisory position was cut by upper management.... a month later I find out that one of the more liked girls in the office was spreading the rumor I'm "gay" and she's off to prison now, so I guess I'm ahead.  Then there is the fact until the third shift started I was helping to lock up and shut down the plant, lights, machines, while my last and current supervisior would be gone before the end of shift, at best right at the buzzer, leaving me and the manager on duty to do it all in 80,000 square ft. (7400 square meters roughly if my math is right) in 5 department areas.  My co-workers come to me for little tools, machine issues, and direction when they are unsure about the any process they are working.... not suprising since I carry my tools and spares, and I trained all of them or nearly all of them, and I was trained in every part of the production process up to the point where it is passed off to the ones that do the final prep and all the sewing is done, before we even had a 2nd shift to work that department.

When there is work to go around and the previous shift sets up the next (like I try my hardest to make sure we do for the next one even when they don't for mine) I am able to do 33+% more then my quota and that equals twice as much as my supervisior is able to do when it is just the 2 of us, and there is a mountain of work, or any of my co-workers.

I don't think sending people home is a viable solution when most are gone, and we can have them prep even more work, leaving more work for the next shift, which will hopefully mean more work left for the shifts that follow.  Each shift is a team, however, each shift is part of a larger team and needs to help each other, and make sure we all know where everything is, and not hide work/materials from another.

Finally, you'll never hear me berate anyone at volume, let alone on the floor in front of their co-workers.  To do so undermines them, and cuts the confidence in their co-workers in them.

Willing to consider re-location for the right job.

Posted: 17-Jun-2010