Overlock Sewing Machine Operator Jobs in Fullerton, CA

Salary Range: $22.62 - $31.67
Position Summary:
The Marker Technician is responsible for creating, optimizing, maintaining, and releasing production markers used for cutting fabric, leather, vinyl, mesh, and other upholstery materials. This role converts approved production patterns into efficient, accurate cutting layouts that maximize material utilization while meeting product, material, quality, and manufacturing requirements.
Working closely with Pattern Development, Cutting, Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Quality, and Materials teams, the Marker Technician ensures that markers are accurate, revision-controlled, material appropriate, and ready for reliable production execution.
The Marker Technician plays a key role in controlling material cost, improving cutting efficiency, and preventing production issues caused by incorrect pattern revisions, orientation, nesting, or marker configuration.
Onsite 5x/week in Buena Park.
Hours: 6am-3pm
Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

• Create production markers using approved digital pattern files and applicable nesting/marker-making software.
• Develop markers for fabric, vinyl, mesh, leather, laminated materials, and other upholstery materials as applicable.
• Create markers appropriate for production quantities, material widths, cutting equipment, and manufacturing requirements.
• Optimize marker layouts to achieve high material utilization and minimize scrap.
• Analyze marker efficiency across different material widths and product configurations.
• Work closely with Cutting operations to ensure markers are compatible with available cutting equipment and processes.
• Troubleshoot marker-related issues encountered during spreading, cutting, kitting, sewing, or upholstery operations.
• Provide technical support to cutting operators when new products, materials, or marker configurations are introduced.
• Maintain accurate digital marker files and associated production documentation.
• Update markers when patterns, materials, widths, product configurations, or manufacturing requirements change.

Qualifications, Skills and Education:
Required

• 3+ years of experience in marker making, digital nesting, cutting-room technology, pattern processing, or a related manufacturing environment.
• Experience working with computerized marker-making or nesting software.
• Strong understanding of pattern orientation, grain direction, material direction, and cutting requirements.
• Ability to read and interpret digital patterns, technical documentation, and production requirements.

Preferred

• Experience in office seating, automotive seating, residential furniture, apparel, transportation interiors, or other sewn-product manufacturing.
• Experience working with fabric, leather, vinyl, mesh, and laminated materials.
• Knowledge of Gerber, Lectra, Eastman, Zünd, or similar pattern, nesting, and cutting technologies.

Perks and Benefits:
We hope that you're excited by the possibilities that come along with working at Exemplis! With us, TEAM comes first. We bring integrity, passion, and excellence to work each day. Being part of our team means living our core values and thriving in an environment of constant innovation and positive change.
In addition to our unique culture, we also offer these fun perks and benefits.

• Competitive Salary: Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges are developed with the support of national benchmarks and industry best practices that adjusts to your cost of labor, years of relevant experience, skill set, and education.
• Health Insurance: We offer a variety of health insurance options (medical, dental, vision, etc.) for all of our team members. Eligible the first month following your start date.
• 401(k): We match 100% up to 3% and then 50% of the next 2% deferred.
• Time Off: Taking time off to recharge is a must whether it is for your personal health or vacation; paid time off starts accruing day 1!
• Observed Holidays: 10 company observed holidays: New Years, Martin Luther King, President's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Day.
• Employee Discounts: We offer our employees discounts across all of our product lines.
• Hit our Numbers Lunch: When we hit our monthly milestones, we all celebrate!
• Tuition Scholarships: Partnership with UMASS Global for 10%-20% off tuition for you and/or your family.

About Us:
It all started in a small warehouse in California with just three employees, a fax machine and a bell that rang out every time a chair came down the conveyor belt. 30 years later, Exemplis continues to lead, innovate and disrupt an array of industries through its growing family of brands - including SitOnIt Seating, Timbuk2, X-Chair, Maverick, Mavix, Edloe Finch, and Albany Park.
From sustainable manufacturing to outreach programs and more, we strive to make a positive impact on everyone we serve. We make sure our people (and their communities) are at the core of our organization. To make a difference, we must be a champion of diversity, inclusion, service and social justice - above all else.
Are you ready to be a part of something special? We have headquarters, offices and retail stores across the U.S. (plus a variety of flexible work opportunities). Learn more and apply today.
Exemplis is an Equal Opportunity Employer and our company adheres to the equal employment opportunity guidelines set forth by federal, state, and local laws. Read our full statement on our careers page.