Oilseed presser
Also called oil presser, oil press operator, oil production worker
Oilseed pressers operate hydraulic presses that extracts oil from oilseed.
What you'd do
Fruit, vegetable and related preservers · ILO- Extracting juices from various fruits
- Extracting oils from oil-bearing seeds, nuts or fruits
- Cooking, salting or drying fruit, vegetables and related foods
- Mixing and adding ingredients such as pectin, sugar, spices and vinegar to assist preservation and enhance texture, appearance and flavour
- Transferring preserved foods to sterile jars, bottles or other containers
- Indoors
- On your feet most of the day
- Lots of contact with people
- Some freedom to decide
- Usually 40 hours a week
- Deadlines most weeks
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
Below averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,000 a month (Bulgaria) to €4,800 (Denmark), before tax.
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Among craft and related trades workers in the EU, women earn 26% less per hour than men. Craft and related trades workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training is the usual route.
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Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.15 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 5 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for fruit, vegetable and related preservers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).