Leather Technology
Main Site, Northampton
- Qualification
- BSc (Hons)
- Duration
- 3 Years
- Study mode
- Full-time
- Start date
- 2024-2025
- Average grad salary
- £27k
- UCAS Tariff
- 96/96
- Student satisfaction
- N/A
Footwear and Leather Working Trades
Workers in this unit group make and repair shoes, cut out, make up, sew, decorate and finish leather and leather substitute goods other than garments.
What they do most days?
Waxes, cleans and finishes footwear and other leather goods.
Prepares paper or paperboard master patterns of component parts of footwear.
Uses hand and machine tools to sew and stitch leather and/or other material in the making and decoration of footwear and leather goods other than garments.
Uses hand tools or machine to make up and repair saddles, harnesses, belts, straps and other leather products.
Positions leather and rubber footwear component parts on lasts and shapes and joins uppers to insoles and soles.
Uses hand tools or machine to cut out, trim, punch holes in or stitch guide lines on leather or leather substitute component parts.
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.