description
Construct, decorate, or repair leather and leather-like products, such as luggage, shoes, and saddles. May use hand tools.
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details
Currently Employed:
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Projected Annual Job Openings:
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Typical Hourly Wage:
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typical training
Typical education needed for entry:
High school diploma or equivalent
Typical work experience needed for a job in this occupation:
No work experience
Typical on-the-job training once you have a job in this occupation:
1 to 12 months on-the-job training
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typical job duties
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Prepare inserts, heel pads, and lifts from casts of customers' feet.
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Dress and otherwise finish boots or shoes, as by trimming the edges of new soles and heels to the shoe shape.
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Attach insoles to shoe lasts, affix shoe uppers, and apply heels and outsoles.
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Clean and polish shoes.
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Cement, nail, or sew soles and heels to shoes.
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Check the texture, color, and strength of leather to ensure that it is adequate for a particular purpose.
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Dye, soak, polish, paint, stamp, stitch, stain, buff, or engrave leather or other materials to obtain desired effects, decorations, or shapes.
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Shape shoe heels with a knife, and sand them on a buffing wheel for smoothness.
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Place shoes on lasts to remove soles and heels, using knives or pliers.
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Repair or replace soles, heels, and other parts of footwear, using sewing, buffing and other shoe repair machines, materials, and equipment.
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tools & technology
Tools:
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Awls
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Blade sharpener
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Hammers
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Leather cutting machines
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Sewing machines
Technology:
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Accounting software
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Inventory management software
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Point of sale POS software
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Spreadsheet software
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