Occupation Atlasfruit and vegetable canner
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/defc8417-eeb6-4f13-8fcd-6518b99a40f4
fruit and vegetable canner
Fruit and vegetable canners tend machines to prepare industrial products based on fruits and vegetables for storage or shipping. They perform a wide range of tasks such as sorting, grading, washing, peeling, trimming, and slicing. Moreover, they follow procedures for canning, freezing, preserving, packing food products.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (19)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- administer ingredients in food production
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- blanching machine process
- check quality of products on the production line
- clean food and beverage machinery
- execute chilling processes to food products
- exert quality control to processing food
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- food canning production line
- food preservation
- food storage
- maintain cutting equipment
- mark differences in colours
- perform detailed food processing operations
- process fruits and vegetables
- tend canning machine
- work in conveyor belts in food manufacturing
Optional (18)
- act reliably
- analyse characteristics of food products at reception
- care for food aesthetic
- carry out checks of production plant equipment
- dispose food waste
- dispose non-food waste within the food industry
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation in food production
- jell fruits
- label samples
- liaise with colleagues
- liaise with managers
- manage fruit juice extraction processes
- mechanical almond processing
- neutralise sugar liquors
- operate a heat treatment process
- operate equipment for food homogenisation
- set up equipment for food production
- work in a food processing team
O*NET equivalents
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Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 19 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
fish canning operator
13 shared · 11 more of its owntend canning machine, food canning production line, food preservation, maintain cutting equipment
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chilling operator
10 shared · 12 more of its ownfood canning production line, administer ingredients in food production, execute chilling processes to food products, food storage
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meat preparations operator
10 shared · 27 more of its ownmaintain cutting equipment, administer ingredients in food production, execute chilling processes to food products, mark differences in colours
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canning and bottling line operator
9 shared · 12 more of its owntend canning machine, work in conveyor belts in food manufacturing, exert quality control to processing food, check quality of products on the production line
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blanching operator
9 shared · 14 more of its ownblanching machine process, work in conveyor belts in food manufacturing, administer ingredients in food production, mark differences in colours
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baker
9 shared · 26 more of its ownmaintain cutting equipment, administer ingredients in food production, mark differences in colours, check quality of products on the production line
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prepared meat operator
8 shared · 33 more of its ownmaintain cutting equipment, execute chilling processes to food products, mark differences in colours, food storage
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blender operator
7 shared · 7 more of its ownprocess fruits and vegetables, administer ingredients in food production, exert quality control to processing food, clean food and beverage machinery
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