Cacao beans cleaner

Cacao beans cleaners operate machines for the removal of foreign materials such as stones, string and dirt from cacao beans. They operate silos as to move beans from there to hoppers. They direct the cleaned beans to specified silos. They operate air-cleaning system in order to remove further foreign materials.

The following job titles also refer to cacao beans cleaner:

cocoa bean treatment system operator
coca bean cleaners
cocoa bean shelling machine operator
bean cleaners
coca bean winnower controller
cocoa bean cleaning machine operator

No formal educational credential is generally required to work as a cacao beans cleaner.

ISCO skill level is defined as a function of the complexity and range of tasks and duties to be performed in an occupation. It is measured on a scale from 1 to 4, with 1 the lowest level and 4 the highest, by considering:

• the nature of the work performed in an occupation in relation to the characteristic tasks and duties
• the level of formal education required for competent performance of the tasks and duties involved and
• the amount of informal on-the-job training and/or previous experience in a related occupation required for competent performance of these tasks and duties.

Cacao beans cleaner is a Skill level 2 occupation.

These occupations, although different, require a lot of knowledge and skills similar to cacao beans cleaner.

kettle tender
extract mixer tester
coffee grinder
cocoa mill operator
cocoa press operator

These occupations require some skills and knowledge of cacao beans cleaner. They also require other skills and knowledge, but at a higher ISCO skill level, meaning these occupations are accessible from a position of cacao beans cleaner with a significant experience and/or extensive training.

green coffee coordinator
green coffee buyer
animal feed supervisor
malt house supervisor
dairy processing technician

This knowledge should be acquired through learning to fulfill the role of cacao beans cleaner.

• Effects of pesticides in food raw materials: Different types of pesticides used for food raw materials to control proper use of those substances preserving main characteristics of products.

These skills are necessary for the role of cacao beans cleaner.

• Tend cocoa cleaning machines: Operate a machine that removes from cocoa beans such foreign materials as stones and dirt.
• Screen cocoa beans: Screen cocoa beans to select the appropriate beans for roasting and grinding. See to it that the selected beans conform to quality standards. Clean cocoa beans with minor defects.
• Check processing parameters: Check processing parameters to keep under control the technological processes.
• Manage delivery of raw materials: Manage reception of raw materials. Receive raw materials from the suppliers. Check for quality and accuracy and move into the warehouse. Make sure that raw materials are adequately stored until they are required by the production department.
• Perform detailed food processing operations: Perform precise food processing operations with great attention and detail to all steps in the creation of a qualitative product.
• Ensure public safety and security: Implement the relevant procedures, strategies and use the proper equipment to promote local or national security activities for the protection of data, people, institutions, and property.
• Tend air-cleaning system: Operate machine that carries beans and grains through air-cleaning system to remove foreign matter.
• Apply HACCP: Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).
• Work in conveyor belts in food manufacturing: Work in rotating conveyor belt systems in food manufacturing.
• Apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages: Apply and follow national, international, and internal requirements quoted in standards, regulations and other specifications related with manufacturing of food and beverages.
• Apply GMP: Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
• Carry out checks of production plant equipment: Carry out checks of the machinery and equipment used in the production plant. Ensure that the machinery is working properly, set machines before usage, and assure continuous operability of the equipment.
• Exert quality control to processing food: Ensure the quality of all factors involved in a food production process.

These skills and competences are sometimes, but not always, required for the role of cacao beans cleaner. However, mastering these skills and competences allows you to have more opportunities for career development.

• Act reliably: Proceed in a way that one can be relied on or depended on.
• Work independently in service of a food production process: Work individually as an important element in service of a food production process. This function is executed individually with little or no supervision or collaboration with colleagues.
• Follow written instructions: Follow written directions in order to perform a task or carry out a step-by-step procedure.
• Follow evaluation procedures of materials at reception: Oversee the delivery of incoming materials and follow a detailed procedure to evaluate and assess their characteristics accordingly.
• Assess cocoa bean quality: Examining the type ofcocoa bean delivered by suppliers and matching it to the desired product.
• Liaise with colleagues: Liaise with fellow colleagues to ensure common understanding on work related affairs and agree on the necessary compromises the parties might need to face. Negotiate compromises between parties as to ensure that work in general run efficiently towards the achievement of the objectives.
• Lift heavy weights: Lift heavy weights and apply ergonomic lifting techniques to avoid damaging the body.
• Assess quality characteristics of food products: Assess quality characteristics of food products in terms of the main properties (e.g. physical, sensorial, chemical, technological, etc.) for raw materials, half-finished products, as well as finish products.
• Perform services in a flexible manner: Adapt service approach when circumstances change.
• Analyse characteristics of food products at reception: Analyse characteristics, composition, and other properties of food products at reception.
• Liaise with managers: Liaise with managers of other departments ensuring effective service and communication, i.e. sales, planning, purchasing, trading, distribution and technical.
• Ensure compliance with environmental legislation in food production: Make sure to comply with environmental legislation in food production. Understand the legislation related to environmental matters in food manufacturing and apply it in practice.
• Follow verbal instructions: Have the ability to follow spoken instructions received from colleagues. Strive to understand and clarify what is being requested.

8160 – Food and related products machine operators

References

1. Cacao beans cleaner – ESCO