dryer attendant
Code 8160.28
Dryer attendants tend rotary dryers to remove moisture from raw materials or food products in transformation. They observe instruments to verify dryer temperature and regulate steam pressure in order to determine if products have the specified moisture content.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- food preservation
- grain dehydration recipes
- food safety principles
- food dehydration processes
Skills and competences
- adjust drying process to goods
- apply HACCP
- apply different roasting methods
- apply GMP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- compare roasted grains to a standard
- control steam flows
- monitor temperature in manufacturing process of food and beverages
- mark differences in colours
- ensure public safety and security
- ensure sanitation
- handle flammable substances
- maintain industrial ovens
- tend drying equipment
- tend fans for machines
- operate industrial ovens
- collect samples for analysis
- follow production schedule
- follow written instructions
- follow verbal instructions
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- check processing parameters
Transversal competences
- secure goods
- be at ease in unsafe environments
- carry out checks of production plant equipment
- adhere to organisational guidelines
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences