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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.3 - transforming and blending materials S6.3.6 - collecting and preparing specimens or materials for testing Prepare footwear samples
Description
Create, test and verify prototypes or samples of footwear against a predefined set of criteria throughout all stages of the manufacturing process. Revise the initial design concepts and implement technical improvements.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 6 occupations
- Optional in 5 occupations
- Total: 11 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 3 (Technicians and associate professionals)
Essential for
- Bespoke footwear technicianBespoke footwear technicians perform activities in small production environments (e.g. workshops) where footwear is typically custom-made. They design, prepare, cut and sew, assemb…
- Footwear product developerFootwear product developers provide interface between design and production. They engineer the footwear prototypes previously created by designers. They select, design or re-design…
- 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 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…
- Footwear product development managerFootwear product development managers coordinate the footwear design and the product and collection development process in order to comply with design specifications, deadlines, st…
Optional for
- Footwear designerFootwear designers perform fashion trends analysis, forecasting, and market research, create footwear concepts, and build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colo…
- Orthopaedic footwear technicianOrthopaedic footwear technicians design footwear and make patterns, using manufacturing technology. They compensate and accommodate foot and ankle fitting problems, design and manu…
- Footwear patternmakerFootwear patternmakers design and cut patterns for all kinds of footwear using a variety of hand and simple machine tools. They check various nesting variants and perform material …
- Footwear assembly supervisorFootwear assembly supervisors check and coordinate activities of operators in the lasting room. They are in charge of coordinating lasting room activity with the previous and foll…
- 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
- Footwear quality
- Footwear components
- Footwear materials
- Footwear manufacturing technology
- Reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- Work in textile manufacturing teams
- Footwear creation process
- Use communication techniques
- Use IT tools
- Create solutions to problems
- Communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- Footwear equipments
Last updated on February 18, 2026
