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Where a footwear maintenance technician can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a footwear maintenance technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Footwear maintenance technicians are the professionals who install, program and tune different types of cutting, stitching, assembling and finishing equipment used in footwear production. They perform preventive and corrective maintenance, and verify periodically working conditions and performance. They analyse faults, correct problems, repair and substitute components or pieces, and do routine lubrications, providing information on their use and energetic consumption mainly to the decision makers inside the company.

Also known as footwear maintenance mechanic, footwear machinery repairer, footwear machinery installer.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 27 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: lasting machine operator, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
lasting machine operator 77% covered footwear quality controller 76% covered footwear assembly supervisor 72% covered sole and heel operator 71% covered pre-stitching machine operator 67% covered footwear maintenance tech… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from footwear maintenance technician, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a footwear maintenance technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A footwear maintenance technician needs 15 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • maintenance of footwear manufacturing machines engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • maintain footwear assembling equipment constructing
  • make technical drawings of fashion pieces communication, collaboration and creativity
  • footwear equipments engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • footwear machinery engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • footwear manufacturing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • footwear components engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • footwear materials engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • footwear quality engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a footwear maintenance technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Footwear maintenance technician is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a footwear maintenance technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.