sweet factory worker (sweet maker)

Who are they and what do they do? The job of a sweet-maker is the industrial production of sweets.

What are the activities of the job? S/he processes basic materials (cocoa beans, sugar, fat etc.,) and ingredients, by roasting, crushing, grinding, mixing, smoothing, forming, soaking, coating, shaping and other special treatments to produce chocolate and non-chocolate sweets - controls and operates physical and chemical technological processes and carries out checks within the sweet production process using labour-saving machinery, automatic machines, measurement and regulation - takes samples for laboratory analyses of semi-finished and finished products - he/she stores and dispatches goods and does health and safety work - he/she participates in maintaining and repairing equipment during shutdowns of processing equipment.

Where is it done and under what conditions? He/she does the job in chocolate and sweet factories and similar facilities. Inevitably these can be noisy.

What tools/equipment do they use? Various machines such as cleaning, sorting, crushing, kneading, profiling, dipping, mixing, whipping, roasting machines and other machines, production lines for cocoa or chocolate substances, cast sweetmeats,, conveyers, packing machines. The working material is mainly sugar, fat, chocolate, and other semi-finished sweet products.

What do you need to succeed? Completion of an apprenticeship, plus patience.