Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders

Key skills

A typical day

• •Inspect finished products to ensure that shoes have been completed according to specifications.
• •Align parts to be stitched, following seams, edges, or markings, before positioning them under needles.
• •Operate or tend machines to join, decorate, reinforce, or finish shoes and shoe parts.
• •Remove and examine shoes, shoe parts, and designs to verify conformance to specifications such as proper embedding of stitches in channels.
• •Switch on machines, lower pressure feet or rollers to secure parts, and start machine stitching, using hand, foot, or knee controls.

Fields of study

Any field