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Textile, Clothing, Footwear and Leather Processing Machine Mechanic
OFO Code: 684901
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 684901
- Occupation
- Textile, Clothing, Footwear and Leather Processing Machine Mechanic
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6849 · Craft and Related Workers not Elsewhere Classified
Official description
This group covers craft and trade occupations not classified elsewhere in sub major groups 64- 68. For instance, the group includes those who mould, slice, grind and polish optical lenses.
Trade occupation in the OFO source
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Footwear Machine Mechanic / Fitter, Tufting Mechanician, Knitting Mechanician: Weft, Spinning Mechanician: Semi Worsted - Woollen System - Blending, Carding and Drawing, Sspinning Mechanician: Short Staple - Preparation - Drawframe and Speedframe, Spinning Mechanician: Woollen System - Ringframe, Dreft and Twisting, Weaving Mechanician - Shuttle Loom, Spinning Mechanician: Short Staple - Combing and Combing Preparation, Gripper Loom Mechanician, Spinning Mechanician: Semi Worsted - Preparation, Sewing Machine Mechanic, Spray Gun Mechanic (Leather), Spinning Mechanician: Woollen System - Ringframe and Winding, Spinning Mechanician: Short Staple - Blowroom and Cards, Spinning Mechanician: Short Staple - Rotor Spinning, Spinning Mechanician: Short Staple - Winding, Knitting Mechanician: Warp, Weaving Mechanician - Narrow Loom, Weaving Preparation - Technical Controller, Spinning Mechanician: Long Staple, Spinning Mechanician: Semi Worsted - Finishing, Spinning Mechanician: Short Staple - Ringframe, Ringdoubling and 2 for 1 Uptwister, Spinning Mechanician: Semi Worsted - Winding and Twisting, Weaving Mechanician - Projectile Loom, Needle Punch Mechanician, Spinning Mechanician: Woollen System - Ringframe, Open End and Twisting, Weaving Mechanician - Rapier Loom, Technical Dyer - Finisher, Spinning Mechanician: Semi Worsted - Roving and Spinning, Spinning Mechanician: Short Staple - Open End, Weaving Mechanician - Airjet Loom, Technical Printer - Finisher
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.
A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.
3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
Browse the official South African industry classification →8. Next steps — official links
9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.