Wicker workers work predominantly in workshops for small businesses.
Occupational skills
Wicker workers are responsible for
- producing wicker goods, wicker furniture and other wicker items
- designing and creating wicker items and presenting their designs
- handling and maintaining appliances, machines and templates
- processing materials including auxiliary materials
- checking and monitoring the quality of materials including raw materials
- finishing surfaces
- presenting wicker products
- storing and dispatching products
- maintaining and repairing wicker products
- conducting quality assurance measures
- planning and preparing working procedures and setting up jobs
- conducting their work independently in an efficient, customer-oriented manner on the basis of work orders or plans, both independently or as part of a team, and coordinating their activities with other trades
- planning and documenting their work, determining working steps, selecting the necessary equipment, materials and auxiliary materials, calculating the quantities and time required, and presenting invoices for services provided
- taking measures to ensure safety and to protect health at work, as well as to protect the environment in the workplace
- using information and communication technologies
