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 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…
  • 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…
  • Footwear production technician
    Footwear 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 manager
    Footwear 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 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…

Optional for

  • 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 …
  • 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…
  • 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…

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Last updated on February 18, 2026

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