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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Construct, decorate, or repair leather and leather-like products, such as luggage, shoes, and saddles. | Cut out parts following patterns or outlines, using knives, shears, scissors, or machine presses. | |||
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Construct, decorate, or repair leather products according to specifications, using sewing machines, needles and thread, leather lacing, glue, clamps, hand tools, and/or rivets. | ||||
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Align and stitch or glue materials such as fabric, fleece, leather, or wood, in order to join parts. | ||||
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Dye, soak, polish, paint, stamp, stitch, stain, buff, or engrave leather or other materials to obtain desired effects, decorations, or shapes. | ||||
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Select materials and patterns, and trace patterns onto materials to be cut out. | ||||
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Dress and otherwise finish boots or shoes, as by trimming the edges of new soles and heels to the shoe shape. | ||||
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Estimate the costs of requested products or services such as custom footwear or footwear repair, and receive payment from customers. | ||||
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Attach insoles to shoe lasts, affix shoe uppers, and apply heels and outsoles. | ||||
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Cement, nail, or sew soles and heels to shoes. | ||||
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Shape shoe heels with a knife, and sand them on a buffing wheel for smoothness. | ||||
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Repair or replace soles, heels, and other parts of footwear, using sewing, buffing and other shoe repair machines, materials, and equipment. | ||||
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Make, modify, and repair orthopedic or therapeutic footwear according to doctors' prescriptions, or modify existing footwear for people with foot problems and special needs. | ||||
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Repair and recondition leather products such as trunks, luggage, shoes, saddles, belts, purses, and baseball gloves. | ||||
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Place shoes on lasts to remove soles and heels, using knives and/or pliers. | ||||
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Clean and polish shoes. | ||||
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Check the texture, color, and strength of leather to ensure that it is adequate for a particular purpose. | ||||
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Read prescriptions or specifications, and take measurements to establish the type of product to be made, using calipers, tape measures, or rules. | ||||
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Inspect articles for defects, and remove damaged or worn parts, using hand tools. | ||||
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Drill or punch holes; then insert or attach metal rings, handles, and fastening hardware such as buckles. | ||||
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Attach accessories or ornamentation to decorate or protect products. | ||||
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Cut, insert, position, and secure paddings, cushioning, and/or linings, using stitches or glue. | ||||
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Draw patterns, using measurements, designs, plaster casts, or customer specifications, and position or outline patterns on work pieces. | ||||
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Measure customers for fit, and discuss with them the type of footwear to be made, recommending details such as leather quality. | ||||
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Stretch shoes, first dampening parts; then inserting and twisting parts, using an adjustable stretcher. | ||||
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Nail heel and toe cleats onto shoes. | ||||
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Prepare inserts, heel pads, and lifts from casts of customers' feet. | ||||
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Re-sew seams, and replace handles and linings of suitcases or handbags. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers, Precision
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
- Knowledges
- Skills
- Abilites
- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
- Alternate Job Titles
- Salaries
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Back Shoe Cutter | |||
Backshoe Person | |||
Belt Maker | |||
Bench Hand | |||
Boot Maker | |||
Boot Repairer | |||
Bootmaker | |||
Bottom Cementer | |||
Cobbler | |||
Cobbler Apprentice | |||
Crowning Inspector | |||
Custom Leather Products Maker | |||
Custom Shoemaker | |||
Cutter | |||
Dyer | |||
Finger Cobbler | |||
Glove Factory Sewer | |||
Hand Bootmaker | |||
Harness Maker | |||
Harnessmaker | |||
Harnessmaker Apprentice | |||
Industrial Sewer | |||
Jack | |||
Jackman | |||
Lacer | |||
Last Repairer Helper | |||
Leather Cutter | |||
Leather Lacer | |||
Leather Production Worker | |||
Leather Stamper | |||
Leather Worker | |||
Leathersmith | |||
Luggage Maker | |||
Luggage Repairer | |||
Mender | |||
Orthopedic Boot and Shoe Designer and Maker | |||
Orthopedic Shoe Maker | |||
Pad Hand | |||
Renovator | |||
Repairer | |||
Saddle Maker | |||
Saddle Mechanic | |||
Saddle and Harness Maker | |||
Sample Shoe Inspector and Reworker | |||
Seamstress | |||
Sewing Machine Operator | |||
Shoe Cobbler | |||
Shoe Cutter | |||
Shoe Designer | |||
Shoe Dyer | |||
Shoe Maker | |||
Shoe Reconditioner | |||
Shoe Repairer | |||
Shoe Repairer Apprentice | |||
Shoe Repairer Helper | |||
Shoe Repairman | |||
Shoe Stainer | |||
Shoe Stitcher | |||
Shoemaker | |||
Shoemaker Apprentice | |||
Skate Maker | |||
Stitcher | |||
Trimming Cutter | |||
Upper Cutter | |||
Western Tack Assembly Line Worker | |||
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