leather goods product developer
Code 2163.2
Leather goods product developers perform and interface between design and actual production. They analyse and study designer’s specifications and transform them into technical requirements, updating concepts to manufacturing lines, selecting or even designing components and selecting materials. Leather goods product developers also perform the pattern engineering, namely they make patterns manually and produce technical drawings for various range of tools, especially cutting. They evaluate prototypes, performing required tests for samples and confirming the customer’s quality requirements and pricing constrains.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- leather goods components
- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design
- leather goods materials
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
- footwear creation process
- leather goods manufacturing processes
Skills and competences
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- develop leather goods collection
- distinguish accessories
- distinguish fabrics
- implement footwear marketing plan
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
- sketch leather goods
- apply development process to footwear design
- prepare leather goods samples
- use IT tools
- use communication techniques
Transversal competences
- leather goods quality
- innovate in footwear and leather goods industry
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences