Sugar refinery operator

Code 8160.52

Sugar refinery operators tend and control refinery equipment to produce sugars and related products from raw sugar or other raw materials like corn starch.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • chemical aspects of sugar
  • enzymatic processing
  • types of sugars

Skills and competences

  • apply HACCP
  • apply GMP
  • apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
  • monitor centrifugal separators
  • disassemble equipment
  • handle product separation in the sugar industry
  • clean food and beverage machinery
  • measure sugar refinement
  • comply with food safety and hygiene
  • tend corn starch extraction machines
  • perform food safety checks
  • perform cleaning duties

Transversal competences

  • monitor sugar uniformity
  • 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