Career Overlap Transition record
RecordMove

Footwear quality manager to footwear maintenance technician

A footwear quality manager already meets 64% of what the footwear maintenance technician role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From footwear quality manager
64 % overlap
Strong match
To footwear maintenance technician
13 You already bring
3 Still to learn
27 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

38.2/ 100

1 How much of what a footwear maintenance technician is expected to do is already part of a footwear quality manager’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the footwear maintenance technician role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

A footwear maintenance technician role treats 12 of its required skills as things a footwear quality manager already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • create solutions to problems
  • footwear components
  • footwear equipments
  • footwear machinery
  • footwear manufacturing technology
  • footwear materials

What stands in the way is 3 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 13 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A footwear maintenance technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a footwear quality manager background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held make technical drawings of fashion pieces communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held footwear equipments engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held footwear machinery engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held footwear manufacturing technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held footwear components engineering, manufacturing and construction

All 13 carried skills, including the 12 the footwear maintenance technician role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 14 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required, 6 supplementary
  • still to learn maintenance of footwear manufacturing machines required
  • optional, not held assembling processes and techniques for california footwear construction optional
  • optional, not held assembling processes and techniques for cemented footwear construction optional
  • optional, not held assembling processes and techniques for goodyear footwear construction optional
  • optional, not held automatic cutting systems for footwear and leather goods optional
  • optional, not held footwear stitching techniques optional
  • optional, not held pre-stitching processes and techniques for footwear and leather goods optional
02 constructing 1 required
  • still to learn maintain footwear assembling equipment required
03 services 1 required
  • still to learn health and safety regulations required
04 working with machinery and specialised equipment 4 supplementary
  • optional, not held apply machine cutting techniques for footwear and leather goods optional
  • optional, not held apply pre-stitching techniques optional
  • optional, not held apply stitching techniques optional
  • optional, not held operate automatic cutting systems for footwear and leather goods optional
05 handling and moving 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held apply assembling techniques for cemented footwear construction optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a footwear maintenance technician role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 13 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held create solutions to problems skill
  • already held footwear components knowledge
  • already held footwear equipments knowledge
  • already held footwear machinery knowledge
  • already held footwear manufacturing technology knowledge
  • already held footwear materials knowledge
  • already held footwear quality knowledge
  • already held make technical drawings of fashion pieces skill
  • already held reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing skill
  • already held use IT tools skill
  • already held use communication techniques skill
  • already held work in textile manufacturing teams skill
  • already held communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages skill
11 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held apply assembling techniques for cemented footwear construction optional
  • optional, not held apply machine cutting techniques for footwear and leather goods optional
  • optional, not held apply pre-stitching techniques optional
  • optional, not held apply stitching techniques optional
  • optional, not held assembling processes and techniques for california footwear construction optional
  • optional, not held assembling processes and techniques for cemented footwear construction optional
  • optional, not held assembling processes and techniques for goodyear footwear construction optional
  • optional, not held automatic cutting systems for footwear and leather goods optional
  • optional, not held footwear stitching techniques optional
  • optional, not held operate automatic cutting systems for footwear and leather goods optional
  • optional, not held pre-stitching processes and techniques for footwear and leather goods optional
9 held skills the footwear maintenance technician role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role apply footwear and leather goods quality control techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role determine footwear warehouse layout skill
  • not needed by the target role footwear creation process knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health and safety in the workplace knowledge
  • not needed by the target role innovate in footwear and leather goods industry skill
  • not needed by the target role manage footwear quality systems skill
  • not needed by the target role perform laboratory tests on footwear or leather goods skill
  • not needed by the target role plan footwear manufacture skill
  • not needed by the target role plan supply chain logistics for footwear and leather goods skill
8 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to pick up Tier
  • still to learn maintenance of footwear manufacturing machines required
  • still to learn health and safety regulations required
  • optional, not held assembling processes and techniques for california footwear construction optional
  • optional, not held assembling processes and techniques for cemented footwear construction optional
  • optional, not held assembling processes and techniques for goodyear footwear construction optional
  • optional, not held automatic cutting systems for footwear and leather goods optional
  • optional, not held footwear stitching techniques optional
  • optional, not held pre-stitching processes and techniques for footwear and leather goods optional
Index

Other moves recorded from footwear quality manager

Full index of moves from footwear quality manager

FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can a footwear quality manager become a footwear maintenance technician?

Yes, and it is a moderate move. A footwear quality manager already covers 64% of what a footwear maintenance technician is expected to do: 13 skills carry over, 12 of which the footwear maintenance technician role treats as required.

What skills does a footwear quality manager need to become a footwear maintenance technician?

3 required skills are missing, plus 11 optional ones. They fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by engineering, manufacturing and construction. The single most important is maintain footwear assembling equipment.

How hard is the move from footwear quality manager to footwear maintenance technician?

Its learning distance is 38.2 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.