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Blanching operator

Latest available data: December 2024 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Blancher Blanching operative Blanching operator Blanching process worker Blanching worker

Blanching operators remove outer coverings or skins from almonds and nuts in general. They cut leaves and impurities of raw material and control the flow of nuts, seeds, and/or leaves in the process. They use pressure and temperature to blanch the raw material if necessary.

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
  • Occupational health and safety
  • Chemical engineering and processes

Digital competencies

  • Operating food processing machinery
  • Marking materials or objects for identification
  • Ensuring compliance with legislation
  • Complying with health and safety procedures
  • Installing wooden and metal components

Digital competencies

  • Using digital tools to control machinery

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Following ethical code of conduct
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts

Professional groups of the occupation

Professionals

Business and administration professionals

Finance professionals

Accountants

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Accountants

496

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

10,52%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

213,92% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

25,00%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

8,87%

Part-time contracts

2,46% Turnover index

113

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-6%

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 professionals

45%

55%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Business and administration 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

Finance professionals

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?

Accountants

No experience
10%
Less than 1 year
10%
Between 1 and 2 years
20%
Between 2 and 4 years
36%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
19%
Manufacturing
40%
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
12%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
11%
Administrative and support service activities
9%
Construction
8%
Others
20%

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.