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Career Guidance Knowledge engineering, manufacturing and construction K072 - manufacturing and processing K0723 - textiles (clothes, footwear and leather) Footwear finishing techniques
Description
The related machinery, tools, chemicals and mechanical finishing procedures applied to footwear manufacturing.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 6 occupations
- Optional in 3 occupations
- Total: 9 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 3 (Technicians and associate professionals)
Essential for
- Leather goods quality managerLeather 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…
- Leather goods quality controllerLeather goods quality controllers perform activities of analysis of visual aspects of the leather goods regarding appearance, robustness, absence of wrinkles, straightness of seams…
- Footwear production technicianFootwear production technicians perform a wide range of activities regarding footwear manufacturing. They are involved in all process phases, including product engineering and diff…
- Footwear production managerFootwear production managers plan, distribute, and coordinate all necessary activities of the different footwear manufacturing phases ensuring the adherence to quality standards an…
- Leather goods quality technicianLeather 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 technicianFootwear quality technicians manage all the standards and techniques related to processes and products. They perform tasks using quality systems based on national and international…
Optional for
- Footwear production machine operatorFootwear production machine operators tend specific machines in the industrial production of footwear. They operate machinery for lasting, cutting, closing, and finishing footwear …
- Footwear quality controllerFootwear quality controllers perform visual analysis of the aspects of footwear, raw material and components applying criteria previously defined and decide on rejections or accept…
- Footwear production supervisorFootwear 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…
Related skills
- Reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- Communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- Use communication techniques
- Use IT tools
- Apply footwear and leather goods quality control techniques
- Manage footwear quality systems
- Perform laboratory tests on footwear or leather goods
- Work in textile manufacturing teams
- Footwear quality
- Plan supply chain logistics for footwear and leather goods
- Footwear manufacturing technology
- Footwear components
Last updated on February 18, 2026
