Leather goods maintenance technician

Code 8156.3.1

Leather goods maintenance technicians programme and tune different types of cutting, stitching, finishing and specific equipment related to leather goods manufacturing. They take care of the preventive and corrective maintenance of the various equipment by periodically verifying their working conditions and performance, analysing faults, correcting problems, repairing and substituting components and performing routine lubrications. They provide information on the usage of equipment and its energetic consumption to decision makers inside the company.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • leather goods components
  • maintenance of footwear manufacturing machines
  • leather goods materials
  • leather goods manufacturing processes

Skills and competences

  • communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
  • maintain footwear assembling equipment
  • use IT tools
  • use communication techniques

Transversal competences

  • leather goods quality
  • reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing

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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