Worker, hams and delicatessen

Food and related products machine operators set up, operate and tend machines for slaughtering animals and for cleaning, cutting, dressing and boning meat; and bake, freeze, heat, knead, mix, blend or otherwise process food, beverages and tobacco.

• operating and monitoring machines for restraining, stunning and slaughtering animals and for cutting and dressing meat and fish;
• operating and monitoring machines and ovens for mixing, baking or otherwise preparing bread and other bakery and confectionery products;
• operating machines for grinding, mixing, malting, brewing and fermenting to produce beer, wine, malt liquors, vinegar, yeast and similar products;
• operating equipment for producing jams, cheeses, yellow cheese, margarine, syrups, pasta, ice cream, salami, chocolate, starch, edible oils and fats, and dextrin;
• operating equipment for cooling, heating, drying, roasting, blanching, pasteurising, smoking, sterilising, freezing, evaporating and producing food products and beverages;
• mixing, pulping, grating, blending and sorting foods and liquids using beating, pressing, sifting, grinding and filtering equipment;
• processing tobacco leaves using machines for producing cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and other tobacco products.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Machine operator, bakery products
• Machine operator, bread production
• Machine operator, chocolate and chocolate products production
• Machine operator, cigar production
• Machine operator, cigarette production
• Machine operator, dairy products
• Machine operator, fish products
• Machine operator, meat products