digester operator
Digester operators, or cooks, cook wood chips with soda ash or acid to separate the wood pulp from unwanted constituents. They test the resulting solution.
Also called: pulp mill machine technician, digester specialist, digester worker, pulp mill specialist, pulp mill technician, pulp mill machine specialist, digester operative, digester technician
- 15
- essential skills
- 22
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 8171
- ISCO-08 group
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8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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Essential skills
15Optional skills
22- carry out waste water treatment
- check quality of raw materials
- clean equipment
- consult technical resources
- deinking processes
- dispose of hazardous waste
- dispose of non-hazardous waste
- drive chipper truck
- keep records of work progress
- monitor chemical process condition
- monitor chipper machine
- monitor gauge
- operate debarking machine
- operate wood chipper
- perform machine maintenance
- prepare wood production reports
- record production data for quality control
- report defective manufacturing materials
- tend bleacher
- test paper production samples
- types of bleach
- use deinking chemicals
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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