Leather goods quality

Description

The quality specifications of materials, processes, and final products, the most common defects in leather, quick tests procedures, laboratory tests procedures and standards, and the adequate equipment for quality checks.

It includes the quality assurance of leather goods production processes and fundamental concepts on quality including leather goods quality framework and standards.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 25 occupations
  • Optional in 0 occupations
  • Total: 25 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)

Essential for

  • 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 …
  • 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, …
  • Leather goods hand cutting operator
    Leather goods hand cutting operators check leather and their materials and cutting dies, select areas  to be cut, position pieces on the leather and other materials, matc…
  • 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…
  • Automated cutting machine operator
    Automated cutting machine operators send files from the computer to the cutting machine, place the material to be cut, and they digitize and select the fault in the materials…
  • 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 CAD patternmaker
    Leather goods CAD patternmakers design, adjust and modify 2D patterns using CAD systems. They check laying variants using nesting modules of the CAD system. They estimate material …
  • Leather goods warehouse operator
    Leather goods warehouse operators are in charge of the warehouse of leather, components, other materials and production devises. They classify and register the purchased raw materi…
  • 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 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…
  • 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…
  • Pre-stitching machine operator
    Pre-stitching machine operators handle tools and equipment for splitting, skiving, folding, punching, crimping, positionning, and marking the uppers to be stitched and, when needed…
  • Leather goods stitching machine operator
    Leather goods stitching machine operators join the cut pieces of leather and other materials to produce the leather goods, using tools and a wide range of machines, such …
  • Leather goods artisanal worker
    Leather goods artisanal workers manufacture leather goods or parts of leather goods by hand according to the specifications of the customer or their own design. They do repairs of……
  • 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…
  • Leather goods finishing operator
    Leather goods finishing operators organise leather goods products to be finished applying different types of finishing (e.g. creamy, oily, waxy, polishing, plastic-coated, etc.). T…
  • Leather goods industrial engineer
    Leather goods industrial engineers analyse product technical specifications, define productive operations and its sequence, refine working methods, calculate operative times by usi…
  • Leather goods designer
    Leather goods designers are in charge of the creative process of leather goods. They perform fashion trends analysis, accompany market researches and forecast needs, plan and devel…
  • Leather goods manufacturing technician
    Leather goods manufacturing technicians perform a wide range of activities and tasks related to the leather goods manufacturing process including cutting, closing and finishing, ac…
  • Leather goods product development manager
    Leather goods product development managers coordinate the leather goods design and product development process in order to comply with marketing specifications, deadlines, strategi…
  • Leather goods packing operator
    Leather goods packing operators perform the final revision of the leather goods products. They apply accessories such as the handles, padlocks, or other features of the product (e.…
  • Leather goods product developer
    Leather goods product developers perform and interface between design and actual production. They analyse and study the designer's specifications and transform them into technical …
  • Leather goods production manager
    Leather goods production managers perform a wide range of activities and tasks in the field of management, namely, they plan, distribute and coordinate all necessary activities of …
  • Leather goods hand stitcher
    Leather goods hand stitchers join the cut pieces of leather and other materials using simple tools such as needles, pliers and scissors to close the product. They also perform…
  • Leather goods maintenance technician
    Leather goods maintenance technicians programme and tune different types of cutting, stitching, finishing and specific equipment related to leather goods manufacturing. They take c…

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Last updated on February 18, 2026

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