Cutting operator
Grading hides, nesting patterns and cutting uppers across the size run — the table where most of a leather order is won or lost.
Grading hides, nesting patterns and cutting uppers, linings and reinforcements across the size run. On a leather order this table is where most of the yield is won or lost, which is why it is a skilled bench and not a starting one.
The plant cuts for all four lines — leather shoes, sports shoes, high heels and slippers — so no two mornings run the same materials, and the sizes you set up for change with the programme on the floor.
Every line the plant runs comes through this table first — leather shoes, sports shoes, high heels and slippers — so the material in front of you changes with the programme, and so does what you have to watch for in it.
What the day holds
- Reading a hide: grain, stretch, scars, and where the pattern can and cannot sit.
- Nesting the pattern across the size run for the best yield the hide allows.
- Cutting uppers, linings and reinforcements on the clicking press.
- Keeping the size run and the pairs together through to the closing room.
- Marking and bundling cut work so the next bench gets it in order.
What we look for
- YouA careful eye and steady hands; experience with hides or textiles counts double.
- UsefulClicking-press or pattern-grading experience.
- Not neededFormal training. Whether you can read a hide is shown at a table, not on paper.
Where you would be working
- SiteThe Bình Dương plant — 15,000 m² on one site, more than five hundred colleagues, and every stage of the shoe under one roof.
- TeamCutting, the first stage on the floor.
- EmploymentDirectly employed by the plant, not supplied through a labour contractor.
- ConditionsPay, hours, health and safety and the ban on child and forced labour are audited independently under amfori BSCI and SMETA 4-Pillar.
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The board lists what is open across the floor, and the open application is there for everything it does not.