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Cacao beans cleaner

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

Other denominations:
Coca bean winnower controller Cocoa bean cleaning machine operator Cocoa bean shelling machine operator Cocoa bean treatment system operator

Cacao beans cleaners operate machines for the removal of foreign materials such as stones, string and dirt from cacao beans. They operate silos as to move beans from there to hoppers. They direct the cleaned beans to specified silos. They operate air-cleaning system in order to remove further foreign materials.

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

  • Food processing

Digital competencies

  • Operating food processing machinery
  • Inspecting food safety and quality
  • Ensuring compliance with legislation
  • Following instructions and procedures
  • Collaborating and liaising

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

  • Working efficiently
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Communicating
  • Following ethical code of conduct
  • Demonstrating willingness to learn

Professional groups of the occupation

Technicians and associate professionals

Business and administration associate professionals

Sales and purchasing agents and brokers

Buyers

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

Buyers

338

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

7,10%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-8,65% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

29,29%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

7,10%

Part-time contracts

1,63% Turnover index

112

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.

Business and administration associate professionals

61%

39%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Business and administration associate 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

Sales and purchasing agents and brokers

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?

Buyers

No experience
9%
Less than 1 year
14%
Between 1 and 2 years
18%
Between 2 and 4 years
35%
Between 4 and 8 years
6%
More than 8 years
18%
Administrative and support service activities
32%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
23%
Manufacturing
9%
Information and communication
7%
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
7%
Others
22%

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.