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Pasta operator

Latest available data: March 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Dry pasta production operator Pasta maker Pasta manufacturer Pasta production operator Pasta products operator

Pasta operators manufacture dry pasta products. They unload raw ingredients from storage silos and ingredient delivery systems. These operators mix, press, extrude as to reach desired drying levels of pasta.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Operating and monitoring machinery used to restrain, stun, slaughter animals and to trim carcasses into standard meat and fish cuts;
(b) Setting, operating and attending machinery and ovens to mix, bake and otherwise prepare bread and flour confectionery products;
(c) Operating machinery to crush, mix, malt, cook and ferment grains and fruits to produce beer, wines, malt liquors, vinegar, yeast and related products;
(d) Attending equipment to make jam, toffee, cheese, processed cheese, margarine, syrup, ice, pasta, ice-cream, sausages, chocolate, maize starch, edible fats and dextrin;
(e) Operating equipment to cool, heat, dry, roast, blanch, pasteurize, smoke, sterilize, freeze, evaporate and concentrate foodstuffs and liquids used in food processing;
(f) Mixing, pulping, grinding, blending and separating foodstuffs and liquids with churning, pressing, sieving, grinding and filtering equipment;
(g) Processing tobacco leaves by machine to make cigarettes, cigars, pipe and other tobacco products.

Knowledge

  • Mechanics and metal trades
  • Food processing
  • Occupational health and safety

Digital competencies

  • Working in teams
  • Planning events and programmes
  • Collaborating and liaising
  • Monitoring operational activities
  • Preparing food and drinks

Digital competencies

  • Using digital tools to control machinery

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Demonstrating willingness to learn
  • Following ethical code of conduct
  • Collaborating in teams and networks
  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Craft and related trades workers

Food processing, woodworking, garment and other craft and related trades workers

Garment and related trades workers

Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and hatters

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and hatters

444

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

9,43%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

116,59% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

21,62%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

8,33%

Part-time contracts

2,52% Turnover index

113

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-4%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Food processing, woodworking, garment and other craft and related trades workers

72%

28%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Food processing, woodworking, garment and other craft and related trades workers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Garment and related trades workers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and hatters

No experience
10%
Less than 1 year
12%
Between 1 and 2 years
19%
Between 2 and 4 years
35%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
19%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
26%
Manufacturing
26%
Administrative and support service activities
12%
Education
8%
Other service activities
7%
Others
21%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.