Apply footwear and leather goods quality control techniques

Description

Apply quality control in footwear and leather goods. Analyse the material, component or model using relevant quality criteria. Compare the material and other components received from the suppliers, or the final product, to standards. Use visual observation and report findings. Control the quantity of leather in the warehouse. Submit components to laboratory control test when necessary. Define the corrective measures when called for.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 10 occupations
  • Optional in 5 occupations
  • Total: 15 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 3 (Technicians and associate professionals)

Essential for

  • Footwear quality manager
    Footwear quality managers implement, manage and promote the quality systems in the company, using adequate tools and methodologies based on national, international or company stand…
  • Leather goods production supervisor
    Leather goods production supervisors monitor and coordinate day-to-day production activities of a leather goods manufacturing plant. They oversee quality control as well as manage …
  • Leather goods quality manager
    Leather goods quality managers manage and promote the systems of quality assurance implemented in the organisations. They carry out the tasks in order to achieve predefined require…
  • Footwear quality controller
    Footwear quality controllers perform visual analysis of the aspects of footwear, raw material and components applying criteria previously defined and decide on rejections or accept…
  • Leather goods quality controller
    Leather goods quality controllers perform activities of analysis of visual aspects of the leather goods regarding appearance, robustness, absence of wrinkles, straightness of seams…
  • Leather goods quality control laboratory technician
    Leather goods quality control laboratory technicians perform laboratory control tests according to the national and international standards. During laboratory control tests they pr…
  • Leather goods quality technician
    Leather goods quality technicians perform tasks related to the quality system by controlling quality and executing laboratory tests (finished products, used materials and component…
  • Footwear quality technician
    Footwear quality technicians manage all the standards and techniques related to processes and products. They perform tasks using quality systems based on national and international…
  • Footwear production supervisor
    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 produ…
  • Footwear quality control laboratory technician
    Footwear quality control laboratory technicians perform all laboratory tests of footwear and materials or components according to national and international standards. They analyse…

Optional for

  • Cutting machine operator
    Cutting machine operators check leather, textiles, synthetic materials, dyes and footwear. They select areas of materials to be cut in terms of quality and stretch direction, …
  • Footwear production machine operator
    Footwear production machine operators tend specific machines in the industrial production of footwear. They operate machinery for lasting, cutting, closing, and finishing footwear …
  • Leather goods manual operator
    Leather goods manual operators handle tools to prepare the joint of the pieces in order to ready the pieces to be stitched or to close the already existing pieces stitche…
  • Leather goods machine operator
    Leather goods machine operators tend specific machines in the industrial production of leather goods products. They operate machinery for cutting, closing, and finishing luggage, h…
  • Canvas goods assembler
    Canvas goods assemblers construct products made from a closely woven fabrics and leather such as tents, bags or wallets. Artists also use it as painting surface. Other titles The…

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Last updated on February 18, 2026

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