# Competences — finishing textile technician

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/1b8c2a8e-204e-4035-bf88-921564e6df2e).

## Essential

- **challenging issues in the textile industry** (knowledge)
- **conduct leather finishing operations** (skill/competence)
- **dyeing technology** (knowledge)
- **finish processing of man-made fibres** (skill/competence)
- **health and safety in the textile industry** (knowledge)
- **maintain work standards** (skill/competence)
- **prepare equipment for textile printing** (skill/competence)
- **tend textile dyeing machines** (skill/competence)
- **textile chemistry** (knowledge)
- **textile finishing technology** (knowledge)
- **textile printing technology** (knowledge)
- **use textile finishing machine technologies** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- apply footwear finishing techniques (skill/competence)
- conduct textile testing operations (skill/competence)
- design woven fabrics (skill/competence)
- develop textile colouring recipes (skill/competence)
- knitting machine technology (knowledge)
- monitor textile manufacturing developments (skill/competence)
- nonwoven machine technology (knowledge)
- research and development in textiles (knowledge)
- tend textile finishing machines (skill/competence)
- test physical properties of textiles (skill/competence)
- textile technologies (knowledge)