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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.4 - operating machinery for the extraction and processing of raw materials S8.4.7 - operating kilns, furnaces and drying equipment Operate drying blowers
Description
Operate the portable air and heat blowers by placing them in the drying aisles in order to dry specific products.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 4 occupations
- Total: 5 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- Clay products dry kiln operatorClay products dry kiln operators manage drying tunnels that are meant for drying clay products prior to their treatment in kiln. Other titles The following job titles also refer…
Optional for
- Tunnel kiln operatorTunnel kiln operators control preheating chambers and tunnel kilns to preheat and bake clay products, such as bricks, sewer popes, mosaic, ceramic or quarry tiles. They observe gau…
- Metal annealerMetal annealers operate electric or gas kilns to soften metal so it can be cut and shaped more easily. They heat the metal to a specific temperature and /…
- Glass annealerGlass annealers operate electric or gas kilns used to strengthen the glass products by a heating-cooling process, making sure the temperature is set according to specifications. Th…
- Glass forming machine operatorGlass forming machine operators operate and maintain machines that press or blow molten glass in moulds to form or shape products, such as neons, bottles, jars and drinking glasses…
Related skills
- Inspect quality of products
- Monitor end-product drying process
- Manage waste
- Maintain equipment
- Optimise production processes parameters
- Monitor conveyor belt
- Follow production schedule
- Monitor automated machines
- Troubleshoot
- Manage kiln ventilation
- Remove defective products
- Set up the controller of a machine
Last updated on February 18, 2026
