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Lime kiln operator

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

Other denominations:
Calcinator operator Draw kiln operator Flare kiln operator Lime kiln operative Lime kiln worker Regenerative kiln operator Rotary kiln operator Running kiln operator Shaft kiln operator Vertical kiln operator

Lime kiln operators control equipment that burns limestone to produce lime or carbon dioxide. They control the flow of the materials, fuel, and air and observe the material flow, air, temperature, fuel charts, and oxygen gauges and make adjustments if necessary. They also keep production records.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Setting up, starting, controlling, adjusting and stopping machines and plant;
(b) Monitoring reaction processes and transfers of products in conformity with safety procedures;
(c) Monitoring meters, gauges and electronic instrumentation on one or more chemical or formulation units, such as mixers, kettles, blenders, dryers, tabletting, encapsulation, granulation and coating machines;
(d) Measuring, weighing and loading chemical ingredients following formulation cards;
(e) Making samples and performing routine chemical and physical tests of products and recording production data;
(f) Cleaning and performing minor repairs to machines and plant.

Knowledge

  • Mechanics and metal trades
  • Occupational health and safety

Digital competencies

  • Operating kilns, furnaces and drying equipment
  • Maintaining operational records
  • Complying with health and safety procedures
  • Installing wooden and metal components
  • Handling and disposing of hazardous materials

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Professionals

Science and engineering professionals

Engineering professionals (excluding electrotechnology)

Industrial and production engineers

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

Industrial and production engineers

407

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

6,79%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

7,83% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

39,92%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

3,77%

Part-time contracts

1,17% Turnover index

134

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-8%

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.

Science and engineering professionals

58%

42%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering professionals

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

Engineering professionals (excluding electrotechnology)

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?

Industrial and production engineers

No experience
7%
Less than 1 year
18%
Between 1 and 2 years
19%
Between 2 and 4 years
34%
Between 4 and 8 years
6%
More than 8 years
16%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
38%
Manufacturing
26%
Administrative and support service activities
10%
Information and communication
8%
Education
3%
Others
15%

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.