Where a leather laboratory technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a leather laboratory technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Leather laboratory technicians perform and report chemical analyses and physical tests of leather. They also perform and report chemical analyses of auxiliaries, environmental emissions and discharges. They ensure that the tests are carried out according to appropriate national, international or customer standards.
Also known as leather chemical tester, leather chemist, leather tester, leather chemical laboratory technician, leather chemical technician, leather testers, leather dye and chemical coordinator, leather laboratory technicians.
Technicians and associate professionals 30 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: colour sampling technician, 81%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- leather production manager 76% covered · difficulty 30.6
- finished leather warehouse manager 74% covered · difficulty 27.1
- colour sampling technician 81% covered · difficulty 22.1
- leather production planner 67% covered · difficulty 30.9
- leather raw materials purchasing manager 63% covered · difficulty 39
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A leather laboratory technician needs 21 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- quality control systems engineering, manufacturing and construction
- test leather chemistry engineering, manufacturing and construction
- characteristics of chemicals used for tanning natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- leather finishing technologies engineering, manufacturing and construction
- leather physical testing engineering, manufacturing and construction
- physico-chemical properties of crust leather natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- leather chemistry engineering, manufacturing and construction
- leather technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
- physico-chemical properties of hides and skins engineering, manufacturing and construction
- manage quality of leather throughout the production process management skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a leather laboratory technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- leather finishing operator 78% covered · difficulty 26.6
- tanner 76% covered · difficulty 28.6
- leather raw materials purchasing manager 73% covered · difficulty 29.5
- finished leather warehouse manager 71% covered · difficulty 31.9
- leather sorter 67% covered · difficulty 37.2
- leather production planner 65% covered · difficulty 39.1
- leather measuring operator 61% covered · difficulty 43.8
- tanning technician 46% covered · difficulty 55.8
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Leather laboratory technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a leather laboratory 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.