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Footwear production machine operator

Latest available data: March 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Footwear production cutting machine operator Footwear production machine cutter Footwear production machine operator Footwear production machine sewer Footwear production machine tender Footwear production machinist Footwear production sewer Footwear production sewing machine operator

Footwear production machine operators tend specific machines in the industrial production of footwear. They operate machinery for lasting, cutting, closing, and finishing footwear products. They also perform routine maintenance of the machinery.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Operating and monitoring machines which mark patterns and cut shoe parts;
(b) Operating and monitoring machines which sew shoe parts together, or edge, polish, or apply ornaments and perform finishing tasks;
(c) Operating and monitoring machines which produce luggage, handbags, belts and other accessories, as well as other items such as saddles, collars or harnesses.

Knowledge

  • Textiles (clothes, footwear and leather)

Digital competencies

  • Working in teams
  • Planning production processes
  • Operating machinery for the manufacture and treatment of textiles, fur and leather products
  • Operating cutting, grinding and smoothing machinery
  • Directing operational activities

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Collaborating in teams and networks

Professional groups of the occupation

Plant and machine operators, and assemblers

Stationary plant and machine operators

Textile, fur and leather products machine operators

Shoemaking and related machine operators

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Shoemaking and related machine operators

2

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

8,00%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

,00% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

,00%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

100,00%

Part-time contracts

2,00% Turnover index

34

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

0%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Stationary plant and machine operators

68%

32%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Stationary plant and machine operators

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Textile, fur and leather products machine operators

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Shoemaking and related machine operators

No experience
9%
Less than 1 year
12%
Between 1 and 2 years
26%
Between 2 and 4 years
36%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
12%
Manufacturing
33%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
17%
Administrative and support service activities
12%
Construction
9%
Education
7%
Others
22%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.