Fruit-press operator

Fruit-press operators tend power presses to extract juice from fruits. For the purpose, they spread fruit evenly in cloth before tending the press and keep filter bags between sections in the machines ready for the extraction process. They are in charge of removing filter bags or pull cart from press and dump fruit pulp residue into containers.

The following job titles also refer to fruit-press operator:

fruit press worker
fruit presser
fruit squeezer
fruit press operative

No formal educational credential is generally required to work as a fruit-press 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.

Fruit-press operator is a Skill level 2 occupation.

These occupations, although different, require a lot of knowledge and skills similar to fruit-press operator.

blender operator
cocoa mill operator
cocoa press operator
cider fermentation operator
flour purifier operator

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

water treatment systems operator
green coffee coordinator
green coffee buyer
food safety inspector
animal feed supervisor

These skills are necessary for the role of fruit-press operator.

• Ensure sanitation: Keep workspaces and equipment free from dirt, infection, and disease by removing waste, trash and providing for appropriate cleaning.
• Operate pumping equipment: Operate pumping equipment; oversee gas and oil transport from wellheads to refineries or storage facilities.
• Disassemble equipment: Disassembles equipment using hand tools in order to clean equipments and to perform regular operational maintenance.
• 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.
• 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.
• Apply HACCP: Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).
• 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.
• Core apples: Core apples and quarter them using an apple corer.
• Process fruits and vegetables: Process fruits and vegetables refer to all kinds of methods and techniques used to prepare food products using fruits and vegetables as raw materials.
• Follow hygienic procedures during food processing: Ensure a clean working space according to hygienic standards in the food processing industry.
• 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.
• 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.
• Manage fruit juice extraction processes: Use presses and filters to extract juice from fruit.
• Apply GMP: Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
• Work in a food processing team: Collaborate in a team with other food processing professionals in service of the food and beverages industry.

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

• Health, safety and hygiene legislation: The set of health, safety and hygiene standards and items of legislation applicable in a specific sector.
• Variety of apples: Variety of apples ranging from sweet to sour and their colours, shapes, and uses.
• Chemical constitution of apples: Chemical constitution of apples: sugars, water content, proteins, acidity, and vitamins. Constituents of apples which contribute to better quality, so the apple production can be used in obtaining healthy juice and pulp.

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

• Filter liquids: Separated solids that will not readily sediment from their suspending liquid by passing the mixture through filters.
• 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.
• Check processing parameters: Check processing parameters to keep under control the technological processes.
• Select apples: Select ripe and unripe apples considering the quantity of starch in them to turn into sugar.
• Analyse apple juice for cider production: Analyse apple juice before fermentation and the cider during and afterwards. Observe how the fermented juice characteristics change from year to year in the same apple varieties. Be aware of the wide range of sugar, acid and tannin levels between apple varieties.
• Analyse samples of food and beverages: Examine if food or beverages are safe for human consumption. Verify the right levels of key ingredients and the correctness of the label declarations and the levels of nutrients present. Ensure samples of food and beverages comply to specific standards or procedures.
• Keep machines oiled for steady functioning: Oil or grease the parts of the machines and equipment that need to be lubricated. Follow safety procedures to do so.
• Dispose food waste: Dispose or collect food waste with the purpose of recycling or throwing away from the production process. Follow established procedures for their disposal taking care of the environment and the safety matters according to legislations.
• Analyse characteristics of food products at reception: Analyse characteristics, composition, and other properties of food products at reception.
• 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.

8160 – Food and related products machine operators

References

1. Fruit-press operator – ESCO