Fur and leather preparing machine operators
Fur and leather preparing machine operators operate and monitor various machines that prepare leather or treat fur- or wool-bearing pelts. They trim, scrape, clean, tan, buff and dye animal hides, pelts or skins to produce leather stock and finished furs. Zimbabwe
Job Responsibilities
- (a) operating and monitoring machines which remove flesh and fat from hides or pelts to clean and soften them prior to processing
- (b) operating and monitoring machines which remove long coarse hair from fur pelts, trim hair to even length and dye, stretch and smooth dressed pelts
- (c) operating and monitoring machines to remove epidermis hair roots, pigment cells and lime salts from skin
- (d) operating and monitoring machines to reduce thickness of hide or skin to uniform size
- (e) operating and monitoring machines to polish or roughen hides or skins to specified finish
- (f) operating and monitoring machines which separate residual wool from skins, or flesh and hair from hides
- (g) operating and monitoring machines in which hides are split edgeways
- (h) operating and monitoring machines which treat hides and skins in solutions to convert them into leather
- (i) treating surface of leather with oil and operating glazing machine to give glossy finish to leather
- (j) operating and monitoring machines which apply dyes and stains to leather
- (k) maintaining and repairing machinery
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