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Pelt Grader
OFO Code: 683503
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 683503
- Occupation
- Pelt Grader
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6835 · Pelt Dressers, Tanners and Fellmongers
Official description
Pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers trim, scrape, clean, tan, buff and dye animal hides, pelts or skins to produce leather stock and finished furs for making garments and other products.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Hide / Skin Grader, Hide / Skin / Pelt Classer
- Dressing and applying dyes and stains to leather
- Preparing bark and myrobalan liquor for treating hides or skins
- Seasoning leather by applying chemical solution or oil evenly on surface by hand brush and allowing it to dry in open a
- Removing long, coarse hair from pelts and trimming underlying hair to even length
- Tanning and dressing pelts to improve lustre and beauty or restore natural appearance of pelts
- Removing hair from skin or hides soaked in lime water
- Sorting and grading pelts, hides and skins according to colour, shading, size and density
- Tinting or dyeing furs to enhance natural shades of fur
- Treating hides and skins in tanning solution to convert them into leather
- Preparing hides by curing them with salt
- Scraping particles of flesh, fat, or protective tissue from skins or pelts to clean and soften them
- Removing wrinkles and setting grains on wet hide or skin
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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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
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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.
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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.