Footwear production technician
Code 3119.7
Footwear production technicians perform a wide range of activities regarding footwear manufacturing. They are involved in all phases of the process including product engineering and different types of construction. They aim at maximising productivity and reducing production costs, assuring the functionality and quality of product and customer satisfaction.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- footwear quality
- footwear components
- footwear equipments
- footwear materials
- footwear machinery
- footwear uppers pre-assembly
- footwear bottoms pre-assembly
- manual cutting processes for leather
- assembling processes and techniques for cemented footwear construction
- assembling processes and techniques for goodyear footwear construction
- pre-stitching processes and techniques for footwear and leather goods
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear finishing techniques
- assembling processes and techniques for california footwear construction
Skills and competences
- analyse types of footwear
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- create solutions to problems
- manage production of footwear or leather goods
- plan footwear manufacture
- prepare footwear samples
- use IT tools
- use communication techniques
Transversal competences
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- work in textile manufacturing teams
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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