Cocoa press operator

Code 8160.21

Cocoa press operators tend one or more hydraulic cocoa presses to remove specified amounts of cocoa butter (natural oil of cocoa bean) from chocolate liquor.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • temperature scales
  • hydraulics

Skills and competences

  • store cocoa pressing products
  • apply HACCP
  • apply GMP
  • apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
  • tend cocoa pressing machines
  • taste cocoa beans
  • disassemble equipment
  • screen cocoa beans
  • clean food and beverage machinery
  • operate weighing machine
  • follow hygienic procedures during food processing
  • separate by-products of pressed cocoa
  • check processing parameters

Transversal competences

  • be at ease in unsafe environments
  • exert quality control to processing food
  • 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