Sugar Processing Machine Operator
OFO Code: 716106
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 716106
- Occupation
- Sugar Processing Machine Operator
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PLANT AND MACHINE OPERATORS AND ASSEMBLERS
- Unit group
- 7161 · Food and Related Products Machine Operators
Official description
Food and related machine operators set, operate and attend machinery used to slaughter animals, trim meat from carcasses; bake, freeze, heat, crush, mix, blend and otherwise process foodstuffs, beverages and tobacco leaves.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Sugar Process Worker (Raw House), Sugar Process Worker (Refinery), Sugar Front End Worker
- Operating equipment to cool, heat, dry, roast, blanch, pasteurize, smoke, sterilize, freeze, evaporate and concentrate foodstuffs and liquids used in food processing
- Operating machinery to crush, mix, malt, cook and ferment grains and fruits to produce beer, wines, malt liquors, vinegar, yeast and related products
- Operating and monitoring machinery used to restrain, stun, slaughter animals and trim carcasses into standard meat and fish cuts
- Processing tobacco leaves by machine to make cigarettes, cigars, pipe and other tobacco products
- Setting, operating and attending machinery and ovens to mix, bake and otherwise prepare bread and flour confectionery products
- Mixing, pulping, grinding, blending and separating foodstuffs and liquids with churning, pressing, sieving, grinding and filtering equipment
- Attending equipment to make jam, toffee, cheese, processed cheese, margarine, syrup, ice, pasta, ice-cream, sausages, chocolate, maize starch, edible fats and dextrin
2. Demand status
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned