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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.5 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products S8.5.5 - operating mixing and separating machinery Operate explosives production equipment
Description
Operate equipment used for mixing of chemical ingredients having as their end product explosives such as TNT, tetryl or nitroglycerin.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 3 occupations
- Total: 4 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- Nitrator operatorNitrator operators monitor and control equipment that processes chemical substances to produce explosives. They are responsible for the product storage in tanks. Other titles The f…
Optional for
- Nitroglycerin separator operatorNitroglycerin separator operators maintain the gravity separator, used in explosives processing, controlling the temperature and liquid flow, in order to separate nitroglycerin fro…
- Ammunition assemblerAmmunition assemblers put together explosives and other ammunition components. They perform this work in mass production in ammunition factories. The production itself focuses on t…
- Nitroglycerin neutraliserNitroglycerin neutralisers maintain explosives mixing tanks by neutralizing the process remaining acids. Other titles The following job titles also refer to nitroglycerin neutralis…
Related skills
- Explosives
- Transfer chemicals
- Hazardous waste storage
- Optimise production processes parameters
- Tend agitation machine
- Use chemical analysis equipment
- Draw off wash water
- Tend vats following a nitration process
- Test nitroglycerin mixture
- Fill the vat with specific ingredients
- Write batch record documentation
- Tend stamping press
Last updated on February 19, 2026
