Cake press operator
Code 8142.2
Cake press operators set up and tend the hydraulic presses that compress and bake plastic chips into cake moulds to produce plastic sheets. They regulate and adjust the pressure and temperature.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- hydraulic press parts
- quality standards
- plastic resins
- types of plastic
Skills and competences
- consult technical resources
- monitor gauge
- monitor automated machines
- use personal protection equipment
- set press-cycle time
- extract products from moulds
- ensure mould uniformity
- set up the controller of a machine
- fill moulds
- operate rollers
- operate hydraulic machinery controls
- optimise production processes parameters
- troubleshoot
- move filled moulds
- monitor valves
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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