Job Description:

• 1) Repairs shoes damaged in manufacturing process: Inspects shoe or reads ticket to determine defects.

• 2) Removes damaged parts, using handtools, such as knife, hammer, lasting tool, prying tool, and tack puller.

• 3) Operates stitching machine or stitches by hand to repair broken or missed stitches and to replace parts.

• 4) Relasts shoe to remove defects, such as wrinkles from outer parts, bunching of inner parts, and crooked seams.

• 5) Aligns and cements parts, such as edges, bindings, heels, soles, and uppers of shoe by hand.

• 6) May fill holes and cracks in shoes, using colored wax filler.

• 7) May be designated according to part of shoe repaired as Cobbler, Sole; Cobbler, Upper; Lining Repairer; or according to method of shoe construction as Cobbler, McKay.