Leather Tannery Careers

He/She performs various processes to prepare animal hides for tanning. The goal of these operations is the unhairing and fleshing of the hides using machines through a sequence of chemical operations facilitated by mechanical actions (beam house).

He/She oversees the transforming and finishing of leathers (of animal origin: bovine, ovine, caprine, fish, or exotic), in batch prod, bound for use in leather goods, footwear, case-making, saddlery, apparel, and accessories.

He/She develops and optimizes colors, usually based on customer samples, and establishes the formulas/compositions for the industrial production of dyes and colorings on various materials (fabric, leather, plastic, etc.). The finishing operator may dye the materials (skins, etc.), monitor dyeing parameters, conduct test prints, and track product inventory. He/She works in accordance with hygiene and safety regulations, environmental standards, and production requirements (cost, quality, deadlines, etc.), and may head up workplace team supervision and coordination.

He/She performs one or more operations to transform raw hides into leather (tanning, drying, shaving splitting, etc.) in accordance with safety regulations and technical and budgetary production requirements (quality, productivity, deadlines).
He/she may formulate leather treatment products, program equipment settings, and carry out first-level maintenance on machines and equipment. He/She may head up workplace team supervision and coordination.

He/she performs appearance and quality checks on leather and hides during or post-production, sorting and grading them, categorizing what can be considered of premium quality (1st choice), what goes back to the workshop for re-processing, or off for waste treatment collocation, according to set quality criteria (texture, absence of visible defects, finesse, color), strength (thickness), size, and end use (apparel, footwear, leather goods, upholstery, furniture). He/she may also set conditions for bringing items up to industry spec or for product reparation.

He/She prepares color solutions, dyes and stains to match specified client color samples, weighing and mixing certain ingredients to set formulas for the industrial production of dyes and colorations on a wide range of materials (fabrics, skins, plastic), respecting the material’s characteristics and responding to the client’s playbook. He/She performs these coloring processes adhering to the strictest hygiene and safety regulations while meeting environmental, technical and economic production standards (quality, productivity, deadlines). He/She may head up workplace team supervision and coordination.

He/She cuts the hide to specified thickness, setting and operating splitting machinery according to client demand and specifications, in line with all leather production or manufacturing requirements.

He/She oversees industrial production’s operational efficiency in companies of various sizes and sectors. He/She sets-up and services processing equipment and workstations, developing conditioning playbooks: continuous flow procedures, batch, intermittent or mixed processes, whether automated, semi-automated or non-automated. He/She performs these duties in compliance with safety and environmental regulations, mastering the ins and outs of technical and budgetary production workflow requirements. (Quality, productivity, deadlines).

He/She oversees manufacturing processes, managing the material, equipment and production workflows for the manufacturing of goods or products, in accordance with quality, cost, deadline, quantity, safety, and environmental requirements. The production supervisor strictly adheres to the policies defined by management. He/She may supervise cross-functional work teams or a department and manage its budget. The production supervisor may also oversee other annex services required for production (production greenlight, planning and scheduling, purchasing, subcontracting, maintenance, etc.).