Where a distillery worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a distillery worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Distillery workers operate industrial distillery equipment and machinery. They perform the maintenance and cleaning of the machinery, roll barrels, and stamp barrel heads.
Also known as distiller, spirits production worker, spirit beverage worker, distillery production worker.
Plant and machine operators and assemblers 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: liquor blender, 54%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A distillery worker needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- operate distilling equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- prepare containers for beverage distillation handling and moving
- take measures against flammability assisting and caring
- blend beverages handling and moving
- stand high temperatures assisting and caring
- sterilise fermentation tanks handling and moving
- perform detailed food processing operations working with machinery and specialised equipment
- operate weighing machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
- temperature scales natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- monitor temperature in manufacturing process of food and beverages assisting and caring
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a distillery worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- distillery miller 76% covered · difficulty 25.6
- yeast distiller 71% covered · difficulty 30.9
- liquor blender 63% covered · difficulty 38.7
- coffee roaster 58% covered · difficulty 45.1
- beverage filtration technician 54% covered · difficulty 46.4
- distillery supervisor 49% covered · difficulty 50.7
- blender operator 37% covered · difficulty 61.6
- kettle tender 35% covered · difficulty 63.2
- wine fermenter 34% covered · difficulty 64
- vermouth manufacturer 31% covered · difficulty 66.4
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Distillery worker is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a distillery worker’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.