Salary $17.67 per hour

Position #59705

All applications must be submitted online via the MCCS Careers website:  https://careers.usmc-mccs.org/

Major Duties:  Alters/repairs clothing which involves complex and varied techniques.  Performs hand basting and tacking operations on tailored garments.  Patches, darns, and reinforces weak spots, tears, holes, worn areas, frayed sections, and open seams.  Measures, fits, and marks garments for alterations such as hemming, adjusting waistlines and sleeve lengths.  Makes alterations such as shortening or lengthening sleeves, legs, and hems, raising or lowering collars, and expanding or narrowing waist and chest of garments without changing the basic shape.  Sewing on chevrons, patches, buttons.

Receives written or oral instruction, prints, technical manuals, work orders and alterations and repair tags that specify what is to be done and the materials to be used.  Follows accepted methods, procedures, and techniques to complete assigned tasks.  Completed work is checked for adherence to specifications.

Provides World Class Customer Service with an emphasis on courtesy.  Assists customers and communicates positively in a friendly manner.  Acknowledges customers, smiles and makes eye contact.  Asks questions to determine, verify and solve problems.  Checks for satisfaction on the quality of goods and services.  Takes action to solve problems quickly.  Alerts the higher-level supervisor or proper point of contact for help when problems arise. 

Adheres to safety regulations and standards.  Uses required safety equipment and observes safe work procedures.  Promptly reports any observed workplace hazards, and any injury, occupational illness, and/or property damage resulting from workplace mishaps to the immediate supervisor.

Qualifications:  Knowledge of how clothing items are made.  Ability to use a variety of construction and repair methods.  Ability to determine dimensions for altering.  Skill to patch, darn, and reinforce weak spots, tears, holes, worn areas, frayed sections, and opened seams. Ability to fit garments on customers, mark areas requiring alteration, and to make said alterations.  Skill to operate regular and heavy-duty sewing machines.  Skill in using a variety of hand and power tools such as wire brushed, irons, ripping aids, scissors, shears, surges.