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Overview
Leather sorters work in tanneries or warehouses during and after production, matching leather to customer requirements and intended uses.
In job descriptions, look for leather grading, tannery work, colour nuance, thickness checks, natural defects, warehouse sorting, quality control and matching leather parts for later production.
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Search jobsWhat the work involves
Leather sorting happens where material quality is decided for later use. The work can be in a tannery or warehouse, inspecting colour, size, thickness, softness and natural marks before assigning use or grade.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include colour nuance, visual inspection, knowledge of leather defects, matching leather parts, understanding customer requirements and keeping sorted lots consistent.
Salary context
Pay context depends on grading responsibility, customer-specific sorting, volume, warehouse or tannery setting, authority to reject material and whether the role supervises other sorting work.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward leather grading, quality inspection, warehouse coordination, tannery process roles or material selection for leather goods production.
Good to know
Check whether the advert focuses on raw hides, finished leather, wet-blue material or warehouse lots. The material stage changes the inspection focus.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Tanning, dressing, dyeing of leather and fur
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include hide grader and tanner.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
51-9061.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
The official mapping connects this O*NET occupation to many ESCO occupations.
Source and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
15.11Tanning, dressing, dyeing of leather and fur
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers (7535)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e6eea1ed-e982-4583-bafe-a0ac796f6cf1 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 7535.1 |
| ISCO group | 7535 |
| Concept type | Occupation |