Footwear production supervisor

Code 3122.4.6

Footwear production supervisors monitor and coordinate day-to-day production activities of a footwear manufacturing plant. They oversee quality control to ensure that the end product is in alignment with production specifications, and manage the footwear staff. The work also involves negotiations with suppliers as well as taking care of the production plan and production costs.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • footwear quality
  • footwear components
  • footwear equipments
  • footwear materials
  • footwear machinery
  • health and safety regulations
  • footwear creation process
  • manual cutting processes for leather
  • health and safety in the workplace
  • footwear manufacturing technology

Skills and competences

  • create solutions to problems
  • manage production of footwear or leather goods
  • plan supply chain logistics for footwear and leather goods
  • use IT tools
  • use communication techniques

Transversal competences

  • apply footwear and leather goods quality control techniques
  • calculate the productivity of the production of footwear and leather goods
  • ejercer con los colegas un rol de liderazgo orientado a los objetivos
  • manage staff
  • measure working time in goods production
  • manage footwear quality systems
  • 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