Candy machine operator

Candy machine operators tend machines that mix candy ingredients. They tend machines that weigh, measure, and mix ingredients. They form soft candies by spreading candy onto cooling and warming slabs cutting them manually or mechanically. They cast candies in moulds or by machine that extrudes candy. 

The following job titles also refer to candy machine operator:

candy production worker
candy machine operative
candy production operative
sweets machine operator

No formal educational credential is generally required to work as a candy machine operator.

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.

Candy machine operator is a Skill level 2 occupation.

These occupations, although different, require a lot of knowledge and skills similar to candy machine operator.

cocoa mill operator
blender operator
kettle tender
cocoa press operator
extract mixer tester

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

green coffee coordinator
water treatment systems operator
dairy processing technician
animal feed supervisor
green coffee buyer

This knowledge should be acquired through learning to fulfill the role of candy machine operator.

• Chemical aspects of sugar: Chemical aspects and constitution of sugar to alter recipes and provide customers with experiences of pleasure.

These skills are necessary for the role of candy machine operator.

• Maintain cutting equipment: Maintenance of the cutting equipment (knives, cutters, and other elements).
• Disassemble equipment: Disassembles equipment using hand tools in order to clean equipments and to perform regular operational maintenance.
• Operate grain cleaning machine: Start automatic cleaning machine that blows as well as sifts foreign particles, like dirt, twigs, and also stones from whole grain conveys clean grain to storage tank for further processing.
• 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.
• Perform cleaning duties: Perform cleaning duties such as waste removal, vacuuming, emptying bins, and general cleaning of the working area. Cleaning activities should follow health and safety regulations if required.
• Clean food and beverage machinery: Clean machinery used for food or beverage production processes. Prepare the appropriate solutions for cleaning. Prepare all parts and assure that they are clean enough to avoid deviation or errors in the production process.
• Produce confectionery from chocolate: Produce different kinds of confectionery from chocolate mass.
• Apply HACCP: Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).
• Administer ingredients in food production: ngredients to be added and the required amounts according to the recipe and the way those ingredients are to be administered.
• Be at ease in unsafe environments: Be at ease in unsafe environments like being exposed to dust, rotating equipment, hot surfaces, sub-freezing and cold storage areas, noise, wet floors and moving lift equipment.
• Tend sweet making machines: Tend sweet making machines that blend sweet substances for candy manufacturing.
• Adhere to organisational guidelines: Adhere to organisational or department specific standards and guidelines. Understand the motives of the organisation and the common agreements and act accordingly.
• Lift heavy weights: Lift heavy weights and apply ergonomic lifting techniques to avoid damaging the body.
• Mould chocolate: Mould chocolate to make chocolate pieces that are of a certain shape. Pour liquid chocolate into a mould and let it harden.
• 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).
• Operate weighing machine: Work with a weighing machine to measure raw, half-finished and finished products.

This knowledge is sometimes, but not always, required for the role of candy machine operator. However, mastering this knowledge allows you to have more opportunities for career development.

• Chemical aspects of chocolates: Chemical constitution of chocolate to alter recipes and provide customers with experiences of pleasure.
• Health, safety and hygiene legislation: The set of health, safety and hygiene standards and items of legislation applicable in a specific sector.
• Crafting: The ability to work with the hands in order to create something artistic.

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

• Operate automated process control: Operate process control or automation system (PAS) used to control a production process automatically.
• Operate a heat treatment process: Apply heat treatment aimed at preparing and preserving half-finished or finished food products.
• Set up equipment for food production: Set up machinery and equipment for food production. Make sure that controls, settings, and input requirements are according to the required standards.
• Act reliably: Proceed in a way that one can be relied on or depended on.
• Apply extruding techniques: Apply specific techniques for extrusion process in the food industry.
• Manufacture confectionery: Manage the development and production of bakers’ confectionery, also called flour confections, including pastries, cakes, and similar baked goods.
• Follow written instructions: Follow written directions in order to perform a task or carry out a step-by-step procedure.
• 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.
• Follow hygienic procedures during food processing: Ensure a clean working space according to hygienic standards in the food processing industry.
• Liaise with managers: Liaise with managers of other departments ensuring effective service and communication, i.e. sales, planning, purchasing, trading, distribution and technical.
• Exert quality control to processing food: Ensure the quality of all factors involved in a food production process.
• 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.
• Label samples: Label raw material/ product samples for laboratory checks, according to implemented quality system.
• 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

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References

1. Candy machine operator – ESCO