textile, leather and footwear researcher
ISCO: 2149. Skills: 30. Essential: 20.
Essential skills
- analyse experimental laboratory data
- challenging issues in the textile industry
- chemistry
- conduct research on trends in design
- distinguish accessories
- distinguish fabrics
- evaluate textile characteristics
- health and safety in the textile industry
- maintain work standards
- manage scale-up experiments for manufacturing of products
- measure yarn count
- monitor textile manufacturing developments
- perform chemical experiments
- physics
- properties of textile materials
- reduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturing
- research and development in textiles
- seek innovation in current practices
- test physical properties of textiles
- use textile finishing machine technologies