Textile, Fur, and Leather Products Inspectors
Job description
These individuals inspect and sort textiles, fur, and leather products. They are employed by:
- Textile products spinning mills
- Tanneries
- Fur dressing companies
- Manufacturers of clothing and fur and leather products
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Hazardous chemical
- Nontoxic dust
- Noise
Main tasks
- Examine clothing and textile, fur, and leather products to ensure compliance with established standards.
- Check and sort animal hides, furs, and leather according to size, condition, and weight.
- Check the size or fit of a garment by placing it on a form or measuring it.
- Repair minor defects on garments.
- Sort, match, and label finished products according to size, style, and quality.
- Maintain records of products checked.
- Pack products as required.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
600
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 84.5% Female
- 15.5% Male
Not available.
- 84.5% Female
- 15.5% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$34,400
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 313, 314, 315, 31655% of jobs
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NAICS 4115% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 4513% of jobs
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NAICS 3396% of jobs
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NAICS 816% of jobs
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Others5% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 313, 314, 315, 31655% of jobs
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NAICS 4115% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 4513% of jobs
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NAICS 3396% of jobs
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NAICS 816% of jobs
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Others5% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
Sometimes required
- Work experience related to the manufacture of products usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Quality control analysis
- Active listening
- Information processing
- Reading comprehension
- Result evaluation
- Oral expression
- Critical thought
- Coordination
- Judgment and decision-making
- Monitoring operations
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Near vision
- Written comprehension
- Awareness of issues
- Processing flexibility
- Deductive reasoning
- Selective attention
- Classification
- Information organization
- Inductive reasoning
- Perception speed
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Distance vision
Knowledge and attributes
- Critical thinking
- Focussed on results
- Autonomy
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Rigour
- Sense of initiative
- Attention to detail
- Respect standards and regulations
- Sense of observation
- Commitment to quality
Interests
- Work manually
- Collect, verify, sort, and classify data or information
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Official name of the NOC 94133
Inspectors and graders, textile, fabric, fur and leather products manufacturing
Job titles
- Fibre inspector - textiles
- Textile inspector
- Garment inspector
- Quality control inspector - textiles
- Cloth sorter
- Hosiery pairer
- Fur matcher - fur products manufacturing
- Shade matcher - textiles
- Grader - textiles
- Cloth grader
- Hosiery grader
- Boot and shoe grader
- Colour grader - textiles
- Hide grader
- Blue-leather grader
- Fibre grader - textiles
- Fur grader
- Wool grader
- Pelt grader
- Textile grader
- Fabric grader
- Wool fleece grader
- Garment final inspector
- Seconds inspector-grader
- Inspector - textiles
- Fitting room inspector - fabric products manufacturing
- Leather goods inspector
- Cloth inspector
- Hosiery inspector
- Boot and shoe inspector
- Hat inspector
- Shoe inspector
- Shirt inspector
- Yarn and spun yarn inspector
- Glove and mitten examiner
- Cushion and furniture-coverings manufacturing inspector
- Jacket manufacturing inspector
- Garment manufacturing inspector
- Quality controller - textiles
- Parachute inspector - fabric products manufacturing
- Textile products inspector
- Fabric inspector
- Foundation garments inspector
- Sampler - textiles
- Cloth sampler
- Colour matcher - textiles
- Textile product sampler
- Textile sampler
- Fabric sampler
- Preshrinking process tester - textiles
- Yarn tester
- Textile tester
- Cloth tester
- Cloth examiner
- Greige-cloth examiner
- Fibre examiner - textiles
- Yarn examiner
- Leather glove examiner
- Fabric examiner
- Narrow fabric examiner
- Draper
- Inspector - fur products manufacturing
- Inspector - fabric products manufacturing
- Finishing inspector - textiles
- Knitting inspector
- Canvas goods inspector
- Cushion and cover inspector
- Hide inspector
- Loom inspector
- Leather stock inspector
- Leather tanneries inspector
- Carpet inspector
- Knitted fabric inspector
- Clothing inspector
- Hide and pelt processing inspector
- Pelt processing inspector
- Cloth measurer
- Perch operator
- Inspecting machine tender - textiles
- Cloth-measuring machine tender
- Textile shader
- Roving weight gauger - textiles
- Sample preparer - textiles
- Boot and shoe sorter
- Hide sorter
- Fur sorter
- Hat fur sorter
- Leather sorter
- Sample checker - textiles
- Stocking inspector
- Thread inspector - textiles
- Skein yarn examiner - textiles
- Fabric manufacturing inspector
- Quality control tester - textiles
- Warp tension tester - textiles
- Trimming material inspector
- Hosiery sizer
- Weaving inspector
- Percher - textiles
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
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