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Occupation 8160 - Food and Related Products Machine Operators

Primary-source occupation page using the ILO ISCO-08 structure as the English reference layer.

2026-05-05Not official

Classification note

  • Published code: 8160
  • Hierarchy level: unit-group
  • This page uses ISCO-08 as the English occupation reference layer while Thai TSCO label harmonization remains incomplete.

Occupation hierarchy

  • Major Group: 8 Plant and Machine Operators, and Assemblers
  • Sub Major Group: 81 Stationary Plant and Machine Operators
  • Minor Group: 816 Food and Related Products Machine Operators
  • Unit Group: 8160 Food and Related Products Machine Operators

Child groups

  • No child groups are published under this code.

TSIC codes where this occupation is primary

Definition

Food and related machine operators set, operate and attend machinery used to slaughter animals, trim meat from carcasses, and bake, freeze, heat, crush, mix, blend and otherwise process foodstuffs, beverages and tobacco leaves.

Tasks include

Tasks include - (a) operating and monitoring machinery used to restrain, stun, slaughter animals and to trim carcasses into standard meat and fish cuts; (b) setting, operating and attending machinery and ovens to mix, bake and otherwise prepare bread and flour confectionery products; (c) operating machinery to crush, mix, malt, cook and ferment grains and fruits to produce beer, wines, malt liquors, vinegar, yeast and related products; (d) attending equipment to make jam, toffee, cheese, processed cheese, margarine, syrup, ice, pasta, ice-cream, sausages, chocolate, maize starch, edible fats and dextrin; (e) operating equipment to cool, heat, dry, roast, blanch, pasteurize, smoke, sterilize, freeze, evaporate and concentrate foodstuffs and liquids used in food processing; (f) mixing, pulping, grinding, blending and separating foodstuffs and liquids with churning, pressing, sieving, grinding and filtering equipment; (g) processing tobacco leaves by machine to make cigarettes, cigars, pipe and other tobacco products.

Included occupations or child groups

Examples of the occupations classified here: - Bakery products machine operator - Bread production machine operator - Chocolate production machine operator - Cigarette production machine operator - Cigar production machine operator - Dairy products machine operator - Fish processing machine operator - Meat processing machine operator - Milk processing machine operator

Excluded occupations

Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Bottling machine operator - 8183

ISCO-88 correspondence

  • 8278