Profession cocoa press operator

Cocoa press operators tend one or more hydraulic cocoa presses to remove specified amounts of cocoa butter (natural oil of cocoa bean) from chocolate liquor.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Hydraulics

  The power transmission systems that use the force of flowing liquids to transmit power.

• Temperature scales

  Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales.

Skills

• Carry out checks of production plant equipment

  Carry out checks of the machinery and equipment used in the production plant. Ensure that the machinery is working properly, set machines before usage, and assure continuous operability of the equipment.

• Store cocoa pressing products

  Use adequate recipients to store the outputs after pressing the cocoa. Fill pots with chocolate liquor, extrude specified amounts of cocoa butter into holding tank, and eject cocoa cakes onto conveyor.

• Be at ease in unsafe environments

  Be at ease in unsafe environments like being exposed to dust, rotating equipment, hot surfaces, sub-freezing and cold storage areas, noise, wet floors and moving lift equipment.

• Follow hygienic procedures during food processing

  Ensure a clean working space according to hygienic standards in the food processing industry.

• Check processing parameters

  Check processing parameters to keep under control the technological processes.

• Disassemble equipment

  Disassembles equipment using hand tools in order to clean equipments and to perform regular operational maintenance.

• Taste cocoa beans

  Taste cocoa beans after roasting and make sure that there are no raw or burned flavours.

• Screen cocoa beans

  Screen cocoa beans to select the appropriate beans for roasting and grinding. See to it that the selected beans conform to quality standards. Clean cocoa beans with minor defects.

• Apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages

  Apply and follow national, international, and internal requirements quoted in standards, regulations and other specifications related with manufacturing of food and beverages.

• Exert quality control to processing food

  Ensure the quality of all factors involved in a food production process.

• Operate weighing machine

  Work with a weighing machine to measure raw, half-finished and finished products.

• Clean food and beverage machinery

  Clean machinery used for food or beverage production processes. Prepare the appropriate solutions for cleaning. Prepare all parts and assure that they are clean enough to avoid deviation or errors in the production process.

• Adhere to organisational guidelines

  Adhere to organisational or department specific standards and guidelines. Understand the motives of the organisation and the common agreements and act accordingly.

• Apply GMP

  Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

• Tend cocoa pressing machines

  Operate one or more hydraulic cocoa presses to remove specified amounts of cocoa butter from chocolate liquor.

• Apply HACCP

  Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).

• Separate by-products of pressed cocoa

  Separate by-products of the cocoa pressing process, such as chocolate liquor and cocoa cakes, from the cocoa butter.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB