Garment Presser Resume Template
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Sean Johnson
Finishing Lead · Garment Pressing & Uniforms
Denver, CO · (303) 555-4692 · sean.johnson@email.com · linkedin.com/in/seanjohnson
Profile
Garment presser with 9 years in uniform, hotel and dry cleaning plants, now leading a 6-person finishing line. Presses 900+ pieces a shift as a team and cut rewrap and repress rates by half.
Work Experience
Finishing Lead
2021 – Present
Front Range Uniform Services, Denver, CO
- Lead a 6-person finishing line pressing uniforms, chef coats and linens for 200+ accounts.
- Set steam pressure, heat and vacuum on tunnel finisher and form presses by fabric blend.
- Inspect pressed garments for shine, creases and scorch before hanging and sorting by route.
- Cut repress rate from 6% to 3% by adding a fabric-blend chart at every station.
- Train new pressers on safe steam press use and hand-pressing sleeves and collars.
Garment Presser
2017 – 2021
Cherry Creek Cleaners, Denver, CO
- Pressed 250–300 shirts a shift on a double-buck shirt unit and sleeve press.
- Hand-pressed silk, wool and pleated garments with a steam iron and puff irons.
- Pressed suits on a legger and topper and set creases to customer requests.
- Kept presses clean, drained and padded and reported leaks to maintenance.
Presser Trainee
2015 – 2017
Mile High Laundry, Aurora, CO
- Fed flatwork ironer and folded sheets and table linens for hotel accounts.
- Hung, tagged and bagged pressed garments and staged them for delivery.
Pressing Skills
Steam pressing
Shirt unit operation
Hand pressing & finishing
Fabric identification
Garment inspection
Tunnel finisher operation
Line leadership
Equipment
Unipress shirt unitHoffman legger & topperVeit tunnel finisherChicago flatwork ironer
Training
OSHA 10-Hour General Industry
OSHA Outreach Training Program
Hazard Communication Training
Employer
Education
High School Diploma
2014
Abraham Lincoln High School, Denver
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Skills to list
- Steam pressing
- Fabric identification
- Finishing equipment operation
- Quality inspection
- Garment folding
- Production speed
- Safety procedures
- Equipment maintenance
Software and tools
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Email software
Duties to describe on a garment presser resume
- Hung, folded, packaged, and tagged finished articles for delivery to customers.
- Operated steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.
- Straightened, smoothed, or shaped materials to prepare them for pressing.
- Removed finished pieces from pressing machines and hung or stacked them for cooling, or forwarded them for additional processing.
- Finished pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons.
- Lowered irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed.
Titles along the way
- Presser Trainee
- Garment Presser
- Finishing Lead
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