From coffee roaster to malt kiln operator
12 of the 28 essential skills of a malt kiln operator are already essential for a coffee roaster — about 43% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 16
- would be new
- 43%
- of the target job covered
- 28
- essential skills of a malt kiln operator
What a malt kiln operator does
Malt kiln operators tend kiln machines and equipment while supervising that the grain roasting operation maintains in specified roasting parameters.
What carries over
12 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- handle flammable substances
- maintain industrial ovens
- manage kiln ventilation
- monitor roasting
- monitor temperature in manufacturing process of food and beverages
- operate a heat treatment process
- operate industrial ovens
- stand high temperatures
- temperature scales
What would be new
16 skillsEssential for a malt kiln operator and not for a coffee roaster. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adjust temperature gauges
- apply flame handling regulations
- be at ease in unsafe environments
- carry out checks of production plant equipment
- clean food and beverage machinery
- control gas-fired furnace for malt roasting
- exert quality control to processing food
- fire-fighting systems
- roast malt
- set up machine controls
- take measures against flammability
- tend agitation machine
- tend fans for machines
- types of barley
- use different types of fire extinguishers
Other moves from coffee roaster
2 roles- cacao bean roaster15 skills in common
- dryer attendant10 skills in common
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a malt kiln operator?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.