Footwear maintenance technician

Code 8156.2.2

Footwear maintenance technicians are the professionals who install, program and tune different types of cutting, stitching, assembling and finishing equipment used in footwear production. They perform preventive and corrective maintenance, and verify periodically working conditions and performance. They analyse faults, correct problems, repair and substitute components or pieces, and do routine lubrications, providing information on their use and energetic consumption mainly to the decision makers inside the company.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • Ensayos de materiales
  • footwear quality
  • footwear components
  • footwear equipments
  • maintenance of footwear manufacturing machines
  • footwear materials
  • footwear machinery
  • health and safety regulations
  • footwear manufacturing technology

Skills and competences

  • create solutions to problems
  • maintain footwear assembling equipment
  • make technical drawings of fashion pieces
  • use IT tools
  • use communication techniques

Transversal competences

  • ejercer con los colegas un rol de liderazgo orientado a los objetivos
  • reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
  • work in textile manufacturing teams

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Sources

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