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Footwear Manufacturing Operative Careers

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Work Environment:

As a footwear manufacturing operative, you'd use various semi automated equipment and handcraft tools to make footwear products. You would work on different kinds of footwear, comprising boots, fashion shoes, safety footwear and trainers.

Being a footwear manufacturing operative, you'd generally accomplish the various phases of production line by working on a pattern provided by footwear design-team. Your tasks would comprise:

  • Cutting (also called as clicking): cutting and shaping fabric or leather pieces for upper segment
  • Stitching (also called as closing): stitching all individual segments together to finish upper section

  • Lasting: molding uppers in their ultimate form on a metal or wooden pattern (known as a last)
  • Making: fastening soles by stitching or adhesive
  • Finishing: fitting and cutting heels in shape, and staining edges, soles and heels before buffing and waxing
  • Shoe room: working on last phase of production, buffing shoe for desired effect and color
You'd check the product's quality before they're boxed and packaged available for delivery. Within most footwear companies, you'd do specialization in specific production phase. And within a small firm, you may work on whole process.

Qualification, Education and Experience:

Firms/employers would prefer you to encompass fine practical abilities to be a footwear manufacturing operative, and they might demand you to take a practical exam at interview phase. You'll also require normal color vision and fine eyesight.

Though qualifications aren't necessary, you can acquire the ABC: Diploma into Footwear or Apparel Production to be trained with some of the related skills and provide you a benefit while applying for job. Experience within leather work or shoe repairs might also be useful.

Alternatively, you may be able to join an apprenticeship scheme with a footwear manufacturer. The range of Apprenticeships available in your area will depend on the local jobs market and the types of skills employers need from their workers.

Training Details:

Generally, you'd be given training at the work by experienced employees. This training would comprise health and safety, production techniques, company procedures, and machine operations. You might be supported to take the NVQ given as below:

  • Third level in Manufacturing Textiles
  • Second and Third levels in Footwear and Leather

By further training, you can proceed to associated fields of production, like retail buying, production management or footwear design. Some colleges and universities specialize in footwear associated courses given as below:

  • Leicester College
  • London-College of Fashion
The SATRA carry out various footwear associated courses and certification in footwear-technology. For further details, check the website of SATRA.

Skills and knowledge:

  • Capability to work by yourself and in a group
  • Capability to comprehend instructions and design patterns
  • Understanding of health and safety measures
  • Capability to work precisely and quickly
  • Practical abilities for utilizing technical equipment and hand tools

Salary and Other Benefits:

  • Initial remunerations for footwear manufacturing operative can be about $13,000 to $15,000 for a year.
  • Annual earnings of experienced operatives can be around $17,000 to $25,000.

Working Conditions:

You'd work weekly for around 38 to 41 hours. This work is factory based. And you'd spend much of working time at a work-bench handling production equipment.

You might be required to utilize safety equipment and outfit, like safety glasses, ear defenders, gloves and face mask.

Different Opportunities:

You'd find most of the work opportunities within London, Northampton shire and Lancashire. Employment openings are publicized by regional press, Directgov website and recruitment organizations.

By experience you can advance to quality control, supervisory management or engineering maintenance. You can also do specialization in custom made footwear, like theatrical and historical costume footwear, or luxury-bespoke shoes. By additional training you can start as a footwear technologist or a career in footwear-design.

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