Sector
Food Industry
Keyword

Dehydrating Machine Operator

Food Dehydrator Tender

The tasks a Dehydrator Tender (Canning & Preservation) is expected to perform include:

Tending sulphur and drying chambers to bleach and dehydrate fruits

Starting conveyors to load trays with fruit

Levelling fruit in trays to ensure thorough processing

Pushing loaded cart into sulphur chamber and lighting burner to generate fumes

Moving cart from sulphur chamber into drying chamber to dehydrate fruit

Observing gauges and regulating and maintaining specified temperature and humidity in drying chambers

Observing fruit during dehydrating process to ascertain firmness and colour in accordance with standards

Pulling cart from heating chamber

Recording drying time of each load

Knowledge of safety and hygiene regulations

Knowledge of production processes and quality control

Knowledge of criticality of temperature and humidity in sulphur chambers

Ability to regulate and maintain required temperature

Basic knowledge of time taken by a fruit to dehydrate

Skilled in monitoring gauges, dials or other indicators to make sure machine is working properly

Not applicable

Safety-oriented

Hardworking

Attention to detail

It is not a desk job

Need not handle a team

Local travelling is not a part of this job role

Part-time work and contractual jobs maybe available

Work from home option is not available

Working hours

Companies usually work for 6/7 days a week and 8/10 hours everyday. This may vary from company to company

Shift system maybe available

Is the job suitable for a candidate with special needs?
No

This job is not listed as hazardous or dangerous as per The Factories Act, 1948 (section 87)

For freshers - INR 10,000 to INR 15,000 per month

(These figures are indicative and subject to change)

Food Industry in India

According to Indian Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF), The Indian food industry is poised for huge growth, increasing its contribution in world food trade every year. In India, the food sector has emerged as a high-profit sector. The role of the Indian government has been instrumental in the growth and development of the industry. The Indian food and grocery market is the world?s sixth largest, with retail contributing 70 per cent of the sales. It is projected to grow at the rate of 104 per cent, touching US$ 482 billion by 2020.

India ranks first in the world in production of fruits and second in vegetables. There has been a positive growth in ready-to-serve beverages, fruit juices and pulps, processed fruits and vegetables products, i.e., dried or preserved and dehydrated vegetables and fruits. The market size of the food processing industry is likely to increase from INR 4600 billion in 2003-04 to INR 8200 billion in 2009-10, and to INR 13,500 billion in 2014-15. In the coming years India?s share in the global processed food industry will get a raise from one per cent to three per cent. This shows that in coming decades a boom can be expected in the sector with immense demand of trained professionals. Therefore, the career as a Dehydrator Tender (Canning & Preservation) has a bright future and opportunities are only going to rise in coming time.

Food processing companies

Food manufacturing industries

Cities and towns across India