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
Till 1 august 2022 in Latvia had 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.

Woodworking product manufacturing technician (PQL 4)

  • Knowledge

    Professional knowledge
    At the conceptual level:
    1. Fundamental principles of ergonomics.

    At the comprehension level:
    1. Content of technical documentation.
    2. Stroke time.
    3. Latest technologies in woodworking.

    At the application level:
    1. Methods and techniques for determining/calculating volumes.
    2. Work organisation.
    3. Planning of the sequence of work tasks.
    4. Fundamentals of computer science.
    5. Fundamental laws of physics in working with cutting tools.
    6. Cutting tools.
    7. Raw materials and their types.
    8. Conditions for storing raw materials.
    9. Planning of the sequence of the technological process of the processing of wood products.
    10. Technical symbols of wood products.
    11. Types of woodworking power tools and hand-held tools, their cutting tools, and auxiliary equipment.
    12. Woodworking machines, cutting tools, auxiliary devices, and working techniques.
    13. Woodworking machines, their structure and operating principles.
    14. Indicators of woodworking machines.
    15. Use of technological process programs of woodworking machines.
    16. Fundamentals and operating principles of woodworking machines.
    17. Woodworking measuring instruments and their use.
    18. Layout of woodworking technological equipment.
    19. Quality requirements and standards for wood materials.
    20. Wood cutting tools and their types.
    21. Raw materials and their types.
    22. Wood materials and their properties.
    23. Wood materials, technological methods and working techniques for their processing.
    24. Methods for measuring defects in wood materials.
    25. Quality control methods.
    26. Logistics for production workstations.
    27. Fundamental principles for calculating material consumption.
    28. Measuring instruments, their types and use.
    29. Causes of non-conformities and methods for their remediation.
    30. Fundamental principles of optimisation software.
    31. Types and operating principles of auxiliary devices, auxiliary equipment, and protective devices.
    32. Fundamentals of the operation of CNC woodworking machines.
    33. Programming language.
    34. Programming of CNC machines.
    35. Fundamental principles of technical drawing.
    36. Technological process of production.
    37. Technical symbols in technical drawings.
    38. Impact of technological parameters on product quality.
    39. Conditions of environmental requirements for proper storage of materials.

    General knowledge
    At the conceptual level:
    1. Work environment risk factors and assessment methods.
    2. Laws and regulations governing occupational safety, electrical safety, and fire safety.
    3. Working conditions and human health as a condition of quality of life.
    4. Employment relationships.
    5. Rights, obligations, and responsibility of an individual.
    6. Information system security.
    7. Fundamentals of copyright.
    8. Types of artificial intelligence and possibilities for their use.
    9. Sales strategies.
    10. Fundamentals of entrepreneurship.

    At the comprehension level:
    1. Structure of the employment contract and collective contract.
    2. Grammar and language function.
    3. Principles of decision-making.
    4. Prerequisites for business communication.
    5. Mathematical methods and tools.
    6. Mathematical terminology.
    7. Learning strategies.
    8. Units of measurement and shapes.
    9. Regulatory enactments in the field of activity.
    10. Self-assessment principles.
    11. Professional career development and its significance.
    12. Risk situations in woodworking.
    13. Impact of individual actions and decisions on own and other individuals’ security.
    14. Principles for promoting collaboration.
    15. Psychology and ethics of interpersonal communication.
    16. Vocabulary.
    17. Types of verbal interaction.

    At the application level:
    1. Occupational safety measures when handling chemicals.
    2. Process of organising the work environment.
    3. Data security.
    4. Safety signals and signs.
    5. Types of personal protective equipment.
    6. Time planning techniques.
    7. Business communication and cooperation techniques.
    8. Software for preparation of documents.
    9. Sector-specific terminology.
    10. Self-organised work process.
    11. Provision of first aid.
    12. Planning methods.
    13. Positive communication techniques.
    14. Calculation.
    15. Operating instructions for technological equipment, tools, and devices, and their compliance with occupational safety requirements.
    16. Creation of prompts for artificial intelligence models.
    17. Official language.
    18. Vocabulary.

  • Skills

    Professional skills and attitudes
    1. To read a work task.
    2. To recognise technical symbols in the work task.
    3. To read the technological process program of the woodworking machine, technical drawings, and technical documentation.
    4. To draw wooden products digitally and manually.
    5. To develop a process chart for the processing of wooden products.
    6. To work with processing programs of CNC woodworking machines.
    7. To monitor the manufacturing process at the operational level.
    8. To develop a work plan for technological manufacturing processes at the operational level.
    9. To organise the performance of required manufacturing operations according to the plan.
    10. To use material consumption tables.
    11. To recognise wood materials.
    12. To assess the quality and properties of raw materials.
    13. To assess the quality of raw materials in line with the documentation.
    14. To distinguish tree species, types of wood materials and raw materials used for their processing.
    15. To recognise raw materials according to their labelling.
    16. To organise the placement of raw materials.
    17. To ensure appropriate storage conditions.
    18. To use measuring instruments.
    19. To determine raw materials according to the work task.
    20. To prepare a raw material supply plan for production workstations.
    21. To keep records of manufactured products to calculate raw material consumption.
    22. To determine the quantity of remaining raw materials.
    23. To prepare a workload plan for technological equipment under supervision.
    24. To ensure the performance of work tasks.
    25. To assess possibilities of optimising current technologies.
    26. To provide proposals for the optimisation and modernisation of technologies.
    27. To determine the sequence of production operations at the operational level.
    28. To monitor the compliance with the technological process of production at the operational level.
    29. To assess the condition of tools.
    30. To select tools according to the work task.
    31. To plan the quantity of tools according to the work task.
    32. To assess the technical condition and wear of woodworking machines, auxiliary devices, protective devices, and cutting tools.
    33. To recognise visual and text-based notifications and warning signals of woodworking technological equipment.
    34. To select cutting tools suitable for the material to be processed.
    35. To set cutting tools.
    36. To set woodworking machines.
    37. To handle auxiliary devices and protective devices.
    38. To use the necessary protective devices.
    39. To perform additional tasks to ensure the production process.
    40. To introduce employees to woodworking machines.
    41. To demonstrate the use of programs on CNC machines to employees.
    42. To select measuring instruments and technical equipment to perform control measurements.
    43. To perform control measurements using measuring instruments and technical equipment.
    44. To record control measurements.
    45. To perform quality inspection in accordance with technical documentation.
    46. To perform visual quality control of the product.
    47. To analyse the technological process of production.
    48. To adjust the settings of woodworking machines based on the control measures of the manufactured products.
    49. To provide proposals for remedying defects.
    50. To monitor compliance with the procedures and instructions of the product quality management system.
    51. To present the procedures and instructions of the company’s quality management system.
    52. To monitor the use of personal protective equipment.
    53. To visually inspect personal protective equipment.
    54. To inform employees of occupational safety requirements for performing work tasks.
    55. To monitor the compliance with occupational safety requirements.
    56. To assess the possibilities of fire safety and electrical safety risk.
    57. To monitor the compliance with fire safety and electrical safety requirements.
    58. To assess the possibilities of environmental protection risk.
    59. To monitor the compliance with environmental protection requirements.
    60. To be well-versed in the storage and use of chemicals.
    61. To act in accordance with instructions in the event of environmental contamination.
    62. To dispose of production residues and waste in accordance with regulations.

    General skills and attitudes
    1. To operate technological equipment and machinery in accordance with instructions.
    2. To ensure the safe storage and transportation of materials.
    3. To create safe stacks of materials and workpieces or parts during the work process.
    4. To use personal protective equipment as necessary or in accordance with the instruction.
    5. To organise own work in accordance with occupational safety, electrical safety, fire safety, and environmental protection requirements and health impact.
    6. To keep the workplace clean and in order.
    7. To observe workplace culture.
    8. To assess the impact of individual actions and decisions on own and other individuals’ security.
    9. To act in the event of fire in accordance with the established procedures.
    10. To provide first aid.
    11. To comply with the requirements of Labour Law.
    12. To comply with the company’s internal rules of procedure.
    13. To prepare documents and reports using software.
    14. To use information technologies.
    15. To comply with information technology security and data protection requirements.
    16. To work individually and in a team.
    17. To be aware of own responsibility in completing a common task.
    18. To participate in generating new ideas.
    19. To think critically and creatively.
    20. To resolve conflict situations.
    21. To plan the sequence of work task performance.
    22. To justify own opinion.
    23. To assess of own professional skills and growth opportunities.
    24. To acquire new skills according to labour market needs.
    25. To be well-versed in the sources of information on sectoral developments.
    26. To stay informed about the latest technological developments in the sector.
    27. To communicate in the official language.
    28. To use professional terminology in the official language.
    29. To communicate verbally and in writing in one foreign language.
    30. To use sector-specific professional terminology.
    31. To use mathematical methods and calculations when performing work tasks.
    32. To compare quantities, drawing conclusions for the optimal performance of work tasks.
    33. To plan the required resources for work performance.
    34. To use the allocated resources effectively.
    35. To put forward proposals for improving work processes.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    Professional competences
    1. Ability to prepare and use technical drawings and technical documentation of wood products according to the work task.
    2. Ability to develop processing programs of CNC woodworking machines.
    3. Ability to plan and organise the performance of work in production.
    4. Ability to plan material consumption for production needs.
    5. Ability to ensure the storage of delivered raw materials and assess the compliance of raw materials with quality requirements.
    6. Ability to properly store raw materials in the warehouse.
    7. Ability to provide production workstations with raw materials and maintain inventory in the warehouse.
    8. Ability to ensure optimal workload of technological production equipment at the operational level and engage in the optimisation of technological processes.
    9. Ability to set and use woodworking machines.
    10. Ability to introduce employees to working with woodworking machines.
    11. Ability to ensure the compliance of the production process with quality requirements, identify the causes of deviations in the technological process, and modify the technological process within the scope of own competence.
    12. Ability to monitor compliance with the procedures and instructions of the product quality management system.
    13. Ability to monitor the use of personal protective equipment.
    14. Ability to monitor compliance with occupational safety requirements at the workplace.
    15. Ability to monitor compliance with fire safety, electrical safety, and environmental protection requirements at the workplace.

    General competences
    1. Ability to perform work tasks in accordance with occupational safety, environmental protection, electrical safety, and fire safety requirements.
    2. Ability to act responsibly to emergency situations and provide first aid.
    3. Ability to establish and comply with employment relationships within the company and comply with the internal regulations.
    4. Ability to select and use secure information and communication technologies to perform a work task.
    5. Ability to independently plan time for task performance individually or in a team, and to engage effectively in teamwork.
    6. Ability to take well-founded decisions when planning own career in the chosen professional field.
    7. Ability to express and interpret concepts, ideas, facts, and opinions both verbally and in writing in the official language.
    8. Ability to express opinions verbally and in writing in a foreign language, using professional terminology.
    9. Ability to provide a mathematically sound solution for a work task.
    10. Ability to perform work in line with the principles of entrepreneurship.

Wood products manufacturing techniciann

  • 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 
Snice 11.10.2022 60 credit points correspond to the study results acquired in full-time studies in one academic year in accordance with the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS).Since 11.10.2022

Till 11.10.2022 1 Latvian credit point corresponds to 1,5 ECTS 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

Till 1 august 2022 in Latvia had 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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LQF PQ level:

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Theoretical and practical training corresponding to the LQF levels, characterized by the learning outcomes that can be achieved at the relevant level, which gives the opportunity to perform work corresponding to a certain level 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: 02.04.2026

Posted: 07.05.2016