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9453 – Hide and Pelt Processing Workers

Hide and pelt processing workers trim, scrape, clean, tan, buff and dye animal hides, pelts or skins to produce leather stock and finished furs. They are employed by leather tanning, fur dressing and leather and fur dyeing establishments.

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Index of titles Example job titles

  • Bater - hide and pelt processing
  • Beamer - hide and pelt processing
  • Beamhouse worker - hide and pelt processing
  • Beating machine tender
  • Beating machine tender - hide and pelt processing
  • Boarding machine tender - hide and pelt processing
  • Brushing machine operator - hide and pelt processing
  • Buffer, leather - hide and pelt processing
  • Burnisher - hide and pelt processing
  • Colourer tender - hide and pelt processing
  • Dehairing machine operator - hide and pelt processing
  • Dressed hide and pelt finisher
  • Flesher, hand - hide and pelt processing
  • Fleshing machine tender - hide and pelt processing
  • Fur blender
  • Fur dresser - hide and pelt processing
  • Fur floor worker - hide and pelt processing
  • Fur pelt dresser - hide and pelt processing
  • Fur plucker - hide and pelt processing
  • Fur-shaving machine tender - hide and pelt processing
  • Furskin dresser - hide and pelt processing
  • Graining machine operator - tannery
  • Hide and pelt processing worker
  • Hide and skin preparer
  • Hide fluffer - hide and pelt processing
  • Hide parer - hide and pelt processing
  • Hide processing worker
  • Hide stretcher
  • Leather buffer
  • Leather buffer - hide and pelt processing
  • Leather dyer - hide and pelt processing
  • Leather measurer - hide and pelt processing
  • Leather polisher - hide and pelt processing
  • Leather sander - hide and pelt processing
  • Leather shaver - hide and pelt processing
  • Leather stainer - hide and pelt processing
  • Leather stretcher
  • Leather stretcher - hide and pelt processing
  • Leather tanner
  • Limer - hide and pelt processing
  • Machine flesher - hide and pelt processing
  • Machine operator - hide and pelt processing
  • Measuring machine tender - hide and pelt processing
  • Pelt dresser
  • Pelt dyer - hide and pelt processing
  • Pelt processing worker
  • Pelt shearer
  • Pelt stretcher - hide and pelt processing
  • Pickler - hide and pelt processing
  • Prepared hide and pelt dresser
  • Roller machine tender - tannery
  • Scudder - hide and pelt processing
  • Shaving machine tender
  • Shaving machine tender - hide and pelt processing
  • Splitter - hide and pelt processing
  • Stretching machine operator - hide and pelt processing
  • Tanner
  • Tanner - hide and pelt processing
  • Tannery vatman/woman
  • Tanning solution preparer
  • Beating machine tender
  • Leather buffer
  • Leather stretcher
  • Pelt dresser
  • Shaving machine tender
  • Tanner

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Hide and pelt processing workers perform some or all of the following duties:
    • Cut particles of flesh and fat from hides or pelts prior to processing using hand and powered cutting knives and remove loose hair from hides and pelts
    • Operate machines to remove flesh or hair from hides, skins or pelts and shave hides to uniform thickness
    • Shear fur or wool hides to produce pelts with hair of specified or uniform length
    • Prepare solutions according to pre-established formulas in vats or revolving drums and immerse hides and skins to clean, dehair, pickle, dye, oil or tan
    • Adjust rotation and mixing action of vats according to state of pelts
    • Immerse pelts to clean, soften and preserve
    • Operate machines to polish or roughen hides or skins to specified finish
    • Tint or dye furs to enhance natural shades of fur
    • May maintain and repair vats and other machinery.

Employment requirements

  • On-the-job training is usually provided.

Additional information

  • Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
  • There is some mobility among jobs in this unit group.

Exclusions

Breakdown summary

Broad occupational category
9 – Occupations Unique to Processing, Manufacturing and Utilities
Skill level
C – Occupations usually require secondary school and/or occupation-specific training.
Major group
94 – Processing and Manufacturing Machine Operators and Assemblers
Minor group
945 – Machine Operators and Related Workers in Fabric, Fur and Leather Products Manufacturing
Version
NOC 2006 Version 1.0