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K - knowledge
L - language skills and knowledge
S - skills
S1 - communication, collaboration and creativity
S2 - information skills
S3 - assisting and caring
S4 - management skills
S5 - working with computers
S6 - handling and moving
S7 - constructing
S8 - working with machinery and specialised equipment
S8.0 - working with machinery and specialised equipment
S8.1 - operating mobile plant
S8.2 - driving vehicles
S8.3 - operating watercraft
S8.4 - operating machinery for the extraction and processing of raw materials
S8.4.0 - operating machinery for the extraction and processing of raw materials
S8.4.1 - operating mining, drilling and mineral processing machinery
S8.4.2 - operating metal processing and finishing machinery
S8.4.3 - operating pumping systems or equipment
S8.4.4 - operating energy production or distribution equipment
S8.4.5 - operating petroleum, chemical or water processing systems or equipment
S8.4.6 - operating wood processing and papermaking machinery
- adjust paper bag machine
- make paper slurry
- operate debarking machine
- operate digester machine
- operate headbox
- operate paper drying cylinders
- operate paper press
- operate pellet press
- operate pulp control machine
- operate pulper
- operate thickness planer machine
- operate varnish production equipment
- operate wood board press
- operate wood chipper
- operate wood sawing equipment
- process timber using hand-fed machinery
- tend bleacher
- treat wood
- wash fibres
S8.4.7 - operating kilns, furnaces and drying equipment
S8.5 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products
S8.6 - using precision instrumentation and equipment
S8.7 - installing, maintaining and repairing mechanical equipment
S8.8 - installing, maintaining and repairing electrical, electronic and precision equipment
S8.9 - operating aircraft
T - transversal skills and competences

This concept is obsolete

tend deinking tank

skills

working with machinery and specialised equipment

operating machinery for the extraction and processing of raw materials

operating wood processing and papermaking machinery

tend deinking tank

Concept overview

Description

Monitor the flow of waste paper and set up the controller of the tank in which the paper is mixed with water and heated to a high temperature. Skim the ink froth forming on the surface.

Alternative Labels

maintain deinking tank

repair deinking tank

run deinking tank

tending deinking tank

operate deinking tank

tend deinking tanks

Skill type

skill

Skill reusability level

sector specific skills and competences

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DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission developed ESCO in collaboration with stakeholders.

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Current version: ESCO v1.2.1 (Last update 10/12/2025)