Orthopaedic Footwear Technician
Orthopaedic Footwear Technician
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Job Description
Orthopaedic footwear technicians design footwear and make patterns, using manufacturing technology. They compensate and accommodate foot and ankle fitting problems and design and manufacture footwear and its orthopaedic components, including orthoses, insoles, soles and others..
Top 18 specific things you need to know
As an Orthopaedic Footwear Technician, you will need to master following:
- apply assembling techniques for cemented footwear construction
- apply basic rules of maintenance to leather goods and footwear machinery
- apply footwear bottoms pre-assembling techniques
- apply footwear finishing techniques
- apply footwear uppers pre-assembling techniques
- apply pre-stitching techniques
- apply stitching techniques
- create patterns for footwear
- cut footwear uppers
- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design
- footwear components
- footwear equipments
- footwear machinery
- footwear manufacturing technology
- footwear materials
- footwear quality
- manual cutting processes for leather
- pattern grading
Top 2 general things you need to know
More generally, an orthopaedic footwear technician is also versed in:
Other things it helps to know to be an excellent orthopaedic footwear technician
It also helps to know the following:
- apply machine cutting techniques for footwear and leather goods
- automatic cutting systems for footwear and leather goods
- footwear creation process
- maintain footwear assembling equipment
- prepare footwear samples
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- perform packing of footwear and leather goods
Top employers for this job
Orthopaedic Footwear Technician (0-2 Yrs Exp.)
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Prereqs Technology Pvt.Ltd
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California
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$250 - $800 / month
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