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Flour purifier operator

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

Other denominations:
Flour purification operative Flour purification operator Flour purifier Grain purifier

Flour purifier operators tend machines to blend and sift flour. They tend screw conveyors to transport flour for blending and purification processes. They operate separators to sieve blended flour and to remove lumps before it is ready for packaging.

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

Digital competencies

  • Operating food processing machinery
  • Ensuring compliance with legislation
  • Complying with health and safety procedures
  • Installing wooden and metal components
  • Collaborating and liaising

Digital competencies

  • Accessing and analysing digital data

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Collaborating in teams and networks
  • Communicating
  • Leading others
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts

Professional groups of the occupation

Craft and related trades workers

Handicraft and printing workers

Handicraft workers

Precision-instrument makers and repairers

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

Precision-instrument makers and repairers

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.

Handicraft and printing workers

66%

34%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Handicraft and printing 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

Handicraft 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?

Precision-instrument makers and repairers

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%
Manufacturing
21%
Education
15%
Administrative and support service activities
12%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
10%
Transportation and storage
10%
Others
32%

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.