Digester operator

Code 8171.2

Digester operators, or cooks, cook wood chips with soda ash or acid to separate the wood pulp from unwanted constituents. They test the resulting solution.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • quality standards
  • types of digesters
  • types of wood
  • types of paper
  • types of pulp

Skills and competences

  • supply machine
  • concentrate pulp slurry
  • monitor pulp quality
  • monitor automated machines
  • set up the controller of a machine
  • wash fibres
  • operate digester machine
  • troubleshoot
  • work safely with machines
  • wear appropriate protective gear

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Sources

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