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Plodder operator jobs in Finland

Plodder operators control the milled soap compression machine that produces specific shapes and sizes of soap bars, ensuring the products conform to specifications and quality requirements.

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Plodder operator – how much is the pay in Finland?

What the trade paid in 2024

Hourly earnings in Finland 2024 — occupation group 8131 Chemical products plant and machine operators, Statistics Finland table 15az, CC BY 4.0.
Median19.99 €/h
Bottom tenth14.69 €/h
Top tenth28.22 €/h
Employees6,579

Pay by sex, 2024

Median hourly earnings by sex in Finland 2024 — occupation group 8131 Chemical products plant and machine operators, Statistics Finland table 15az, CC BY 4.0.
SexMedianEmployees
Women18.11 €/h2,194
Men21.12 €/h4,385

Plodder operator - Which skills are essential?

Optimise and maintain the parameters of the production process such as flow, temperature or pressure.

Utilise computer equipment or digital devices to facilitate quality control, data management, and communication. Follow instructions given by a computer programme, create computer files or documents.

Use various techniques to ensure the product quality is respecting the quality standards and specifications. Oversee defects, packaging and sendbacks of products to different production departments.

Select the corresponding plate and insert it into the plodder machine. The selection of the plate must be done according to specifications so that the soap bars will have the correct shape and size.

Change the soap filter from the plodder machine by unbolting the filter cap, inspecting it and replacing it according to specifications.

Tend the plodder machine by setting it up and operating it in order to transform milled soap into soap bars.

Monitor and accordingly adjust the valves in order to allow a specific amount of liquids (such as ammonia sulfuric acid or viscous soap) or steam into the mixer or machine.

Plodder operator - Which skills are useful but not essential?

Transfer dry raw materials using suitable mechanical handling systems like screw feeders, or using gravity or pneumatic means.

Check the impact of manufacturing machinery on the environment, analysing temperature levels, water quality and air pollution.

Transfer the chemical mixture from the mixing tank to the storage tank by turning on the valves.

The way in which electrical and instrumentation engineering (E and I engineering) modernises the production infrastructure from design to preparation of execution phase and the execution phase itself followed by the after-sales services, improvements obtain by using the electrical and instrumentation engineering.

Manage or dispose of significant amounts of waste materials or hazardous materials. Ensure required licenses and permits are in place and reasonable management practices, industry standards, or commonly accepted farming practices followed.

The relevant chemical processes used in manufacture, such as purification, seperation, emulgation and dispergation processing.

Monitor the conformity of the chemical process, checking all indicators or warning signals provided by the instruments such as recording instruments, flowmeters and panel lights.

The production and characteristisc of organic basic chemicals such as ethanol, methanol, benzene and inorganic basic chemicals such as oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen.

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Sources

Wage data: Statistics Finland, wage structure statistics, table 15az, year 2024. Read 2.10.2026. Licence CC BY 4.0.

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

How we calculated these figures