The Collar360

Sole and heel operator

Other names

heel nailing machine operator, shoe cementer, heel nailing machine tender, sole cementer, sole blacker, sole stitcher

Clothing, textiles and leather

They use machines to fix soles and heels onto shoes by stitching, gluing or nailing, and they check the finished shoes.

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The work

The tasks come from O*NET (United States) and ESCO (Europe), the world's two occupation databases. How the work is done can differ in Uganda; our team adds the local way where it does.

  1. 1

    Inspect finished products to ensure that shoes have been completed according to specifications.

  2. 2

    Operate or tend machines to join, decorate, reinforce, or finish shoes and shoe parts.

  3. 3

    Remove and examine shoes, shoe parts, and designs to verify conformance to specifications such as proper embedding of stitches in channels.

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Sources

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Uganda labour market: UBOS (NLFS 2021, LMS 2025, UNHS, NHRS), ILOSTAT, NDP IV Human Resource Development Plan

Official record

Uganda Bureau of Statistics; International Labour Organization (ILOSTAT); National Planning Authority. Gathered by The Collar360.

UBOS and NPA publications (public); ILOSTAT CC BY 4.0

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ISCO-08, International Standard Classification of Occupations

International classification

ISCO-08 © International Labour Organization.

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ESCO, European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

International classification

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU): free reuse with attribution

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O*NET 31.0 Database

International classification

Includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.

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In other languages

français
afficheur semelle/afficheuse semelle
español
operador de suelas y tacones/operadora de suelas y tacones
العربية
عامل الكعوب والنعول / عاملة الكعوب والنعول
português
Operador de máquinas de fabrico de solas e tacões/Operador de máquinas de fabrico de solas e tacões
Deutsch
Sohlenmacher/Sohlenmacherin
italiano
addetto all’applicazione di suole e tacchi/addetta all’applicazione di suole e tacchi

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