Leather goods manufacturing technician

Code 3119.9

Leather goods manufacturing technicians perform a wide range of activities and tasks related to the leather goods manufacturing process including cutting, closing and finishing, according to pre-defined quality criteria, resulting from the direct relationship with the costumer. They use manual techniques supported by simple traditional equipment to produce exclusive models or very small orders.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • leather goods components
  • leather goods materials
  • leather goods manufacturing processes
  • pre-stitching processes and techniques for footwear and leather goods

Skills and competences

  • apply basic rules of maintenance to leather goods and footwear machinery
  • apply machine cutting techniques for footwear and leather goods
  • communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
  • manage production of footwear or leather goods
  • plan leather goods manufacture
  • prepare leather goods samples
  • 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