Qualifications Framework level

EQF level

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).


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LQF level

Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).

LQF covers stages of education starting from the basic education (level 1 – special basic education) to the highest education (level 8 – doctoral studies).


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Level of professional qualification
Latvia has a system of five professional qualifications levels (PQL, 1 – the lowest, 5 – the highest).

PQL system covers only professional qualifications (basic education, secondary and higher education stages).

PQL reflects readiness of a person to perform work of certain stage of complexity and responsibility.
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Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes are knowledge, skills and competences acquired during a certain period of learning.

In Latvia, learning outcomes are stipulated by state education standards and occupational standards (for the professional qualifications).

Learning outcomes of higher education are defined by higher education institutions.


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– Able to perform intellectual operations at the level of knowledge, understanding, use and simple analysis.
– Uses knowledge and theoretical understanding in wide-ranging complex activities.
– Able to obtain and evaluate information independently.
– Uses wide-ranging knowledge and skills for the solution of well-formulated, but unknown and unforeseeable problems.
– Has detailed, theoretical knowledge and understanding corresponding to the professional qualification.
– Has wide-ranging skills and proficiency essential for the profession corresponding to the professional qualification.
– Able to perform the work of executor independently, including the planning and supervision of the work to be performed.
– Knows and is able to apply appropriate technologies.
– Able to apply information acquisition and processing technologies in professional activity.
– Latvian language proficiency developed and foreign language(-s) proficiency improved.
– Knows and understands links between historical developments of their county, Latvia, Europe and world.
– Able to apply mathematical knowledge and skills in professional work.
– Able to apply knowledge about the facts and laws of natural sciences in professional activity.
– Able to evaluate the processes occurring in nature and society and comprehend them in their system and development.
– Understands the principle of coherence of ecological space and observes the environmental protection requirements in professional activity.
– Understands the basic principles of market economy.
– Able to find their place in the economic structures of society and able to operate therein.
– Understands the economic relationship between employer and employee and knows the relevant legislation.
– Has a conception of the political structure of the European Union, as well as of the principles of single economic area and the mobility of the labour force.
– Evaluates their abilities adequately.
– Plans activity in compliance with circumstances, possibilities and their abilities.
– Plans time in accordance with task.
– Able to make justified choice and make a decision independently in familiar and less familiar circumstances.
– Able to answer for the quantitative and qualitative result of their professional activities, assumes partial responsibility for the work performed by others.
– Is determined, systematic and rational when working.
– Is careful and accurate.
– Able to assume initiative.

Wood products manufacturing technician

  • Knowledge

    1. The knowledge necessary for performance of the basic tasks of the professional activity at the level of notion:
    1.1. ergonomics;
    1.2. latest technologies in woodworking industry;
    1.3. basics of communication;
    1.4. basics of management.
    2. The knowledge necessary for performance of the basic tasks of the professional activity at the level of understanding:
    2.1. electrical safety rules;
    2.2. action in case of electrical current leakage;
    2.3. raw material types, its qualities and labels;
    2.4. woodworking technical labels;
    2.5. woodworking materials and its qualities;
    2.6. basics of maths;
    2.7. auxiliary equipment’s and safety devices, their types and operations principles;
    2.8. basics of electrical engineering;
    2.9. basics of physics;
    2.10. veneer production technology;
    2.11. board production technology;
    2.12. wood drying;
    2.13. sawmilling technology;
    2.14. professional terms in the official and in one foreign language.
    3. The knowledge necessary for performance of the basic tasks of the professional activity at the level of  use:
    3.1. work organisation;
    3.2. technological process of the woodworking;
    3.3. woodworking technological equipment placement;
    3.4. sequence of the woodworking work task performance sequence;
    3.5. information technologies and software;
    3.6. programming language;
    3.7. specialised woodworking programme management operation;
    3.8. CAD computerised drawing;
    3.9. construction and drawing of the wood articles;
    3.10. technical documentation;
    3.11. raw material quality requirements;
    3.12. raw material storage conditions;
    3.13. raw material amount detection types and means;
    3.14. tree species and their qualities;
    3.15. wood structure and damages;
    3.16. basics of woodworking;
    3.17. woodworking technological equipment operation;
    3.18. types and use of measuring and control instruments;
    3.19. wood products manufacturing design;
    3.20. wood products manufacturing technologies;
    3.21. wood cutting processes;
    3.22. woodworking technological equipment, their structure and operation principles;
    3.23. computer-aided machine tools and equipment;
    3.24. wood cutting tools and their types;
    3.25. wood product decoration;
    3.26. labour protection (safety signs and signals, individual safety means);
    3.27. fire safety rules (action in case of the fire);
    3.28. first aid;
    3.29. environmental protection;
    3.30. basic principles of general and professional ethics;
    3.31. legal employment regulations;
    3.32. official language;
    3.33. one foreign language at the level of communication.

  • Skills

    1. Distinguish tree species, wood material and processing of the raw material types.
    2. Determine wood raw material according to their label.
    3. Choose and use appropriate work clothes and individual protection means.
    4. Choose and set up auxiliary equipment, protection devices and wood cutting tools.
    5. Assess technical condition and depreciation of the woodworking technological equipment, auxiliary equipment, safety equipment and cutting tools.
    6. Compare current and needed woodworking technological equipment settings, processing modes in accordance with the exploitation instructions.
    7. Teach woodworking equipment operators to work with woodworking technological equipment.
    8. Work with specialised programmes of the programme control for the woodworking machines/lines.
    9. Determine and choose the appropriated cutting tools for the wood.
    10. Choose and use measuring instruments to perform control for woodworking technological equipment and wood cutting tools.
    11. Manage the technological equipment operation of the woodworking mechanical treatment.
    12. Assess the technical condition of the technological equipment that is used for the woodwork mechanical treatment.
    13. Choose appropriate measuring instruments and other technical means for the control measurement performance.
    14. Perform the manufactured production control measurements and quality control.
    15. Perform corrections in the woodwork technological equipment settings according to the performed control measures of the manufactured production.
    16. Perceive, understand and comply with sound, visual and text announcements of the woodwork technologies.
    17. Read wood working machines/line technological process programme, drawings and technical documentation.
    18. Set and assess woodwork raw material for the corresponding work task performance.
    19. Visually assess woodworking technological equipment technical condition and possible risks.
    20. Organise work place and perform works according to the work safety, electrical safety, fire safety and environment protection in accordance with the laws and regulations requirements.
    21. Perform manufactured production accounting and draw up documentation.
    22. Work in collective by complying with the professional and general principles of the ethics.
    23. Perform the work individually and be responsible for own work result.
    24. Provide the first aid.
    25. Know the official language.
    26. Know one foreign language at the level of the communication.
    27. Use professional terminology in the official language and in one foreign language.
    28. Comply with the employment regulations.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    1. Ability to accept the raw material delivered for the warehouse, assess the wood’s raw material compliance to the quality requirements.
    2. Ability to determine necessary raw wood type, amount and work capacity for the order fulfilment.
    3. Ability to prepare the work drawings and technical documentation in accordance with the work task.
    4. Ability to determine the reasons of the technological process deviation, by underlying on the set parameters in the technical regulatory documentation.
    5. Ability to provide production items with the raw material by performing its record in the warehouse.
    6. Ability to provide order at the company’s manufacturing department.
    7. Ability to use technological knowledge in the control and management processes, by providing optimal utilization of the main technological manufacturing equipment.
    8. Ability to plan and organise work to be performed.
    9. Ability to assess work risks, choose and use appropriate work clothes and individual protection means.
    10. Ability to understand and comply with the work safety requirements, ensure its compliance, perform work duties without doing harm to own and other persons’ health, recognise and comply with safety signals and signs.
    11. Ability to comply with the environmental protection laws and regulations requirements.
    12. Ability to understand and comply with the fire safety requirements, perform work duties, ensuring compliance to them at the company’s manufacturing department.
    13. Ability to provide the first aid.
    14. Ability to use information technologies, technical documentation and other information sources and get to know the latest technologies, instruments and specialised wood treatment programmes.
    15. Ability to perform work independently and be responsible for own work result.
    16. Ability to think rationally and solve problems.
    17. Ability to improve qualification in accordance with the employer’s requirements by using software for furniture construction and drawing.
    18. Ability to provide compliance with procedures and instructions of the production quality management system.
    19. Ability to communicate and use professional terminology in state language and in one foreign language.
    20. Ability to comply with the basic principles of the professional and general ethics.
    21. Ability to comply with employment regulations.

Qualification acquisition requirements

Previous education
Certificate of general basic education
Ways to acquire 
Qualifications can be acquired in the framework of education programs or in the evaluation and recognition of non-formal knowledge, skills and competences acquired (in vocational education LKI Levels 2-4).
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Formal (through education programmes)
ECTS credit points 
The unit of the volume of Latvian higher education studies - 1 credit point corresponds to one week of study work in full-time studies (40 credit points per study year).

1 The credit point of Latvia corresponds to 1,5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) credit point.
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Duration of study 
Duration of qualification in full-time studies
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4 years

Qualification document

Awarding body

Vocational basic and secondary education institution

- Vocational Education Competence Centre "Riga State Technical School"

- Vocational Education Competence Centre "Liepaja State Technical School"

Type of awarding bodies:

- Liepājas Valsts tehnikums

- Rīgas Valsts tehnikums

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Qualifications Framework level

EQF level

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).


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LQF level

Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).

LQF covers stages of education starting from the basic education (level 1 – special basic education) to the highest education (level 8 – doctoral studies).


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Level of professional qualification

Latvia has a system of five professional qualifications levels (PQL, 1 – the lowest, 5 – the highest).

PQL system covers only professional qualifications (basic education, secondary and higher education stages).

PQL reflects readiness of a person to perform work of certain stage of complexity and responsibility.


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Qualification field, stage and type

Thematic field (ISCED 2013)
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) developed by UNESCO.
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Manufacturing and processing (072)

Detailed field: (ISCED 2013)

Materials (glass, paper, plastic and wood) (0722)

Education
Stages of Latvian education system included in the LQF:
- basic education
- secondary education
- higher education
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Secondary education

Qualification type
ITypes of Latvian education:
-General education
-Professional education
-Academic education
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Vocational

Full or partial

Full qualification

Other information

National Education Information System

National Database of Education Opportunities

Active qualification

Last changes: 11.10.2023

Posted: 07.05.2016