Dairyman

OFO Code: 681301

Last checked 7 October 2026

PATHLENS

1. Occupation identity

OFO code: 681301
Occupation: Dairyman
Classification: OFO 2021
Major group: SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
Unit group: 6813 · Dairy Products Makers

Official description
Dairy products makers process butter and various types of cheese, cream or other dairy products.

More official OFO detail

Specialisations: Cottage Cheese Maker, Milk Producer, Yoghurt Maker, Cheese Maker, Butter Maker

Salting cheese and piercing or smearing cheese with cultured wash to develop mould growth
Monitoring product quality before packaging by inspecting, taking samples and adjusting treatment conditions when necessary
Recording amounts of ingredients used, test results, and time cycles
Dumping measured amounts of starter and other ingredients into milk
Boiling or pasteurising milk to achieve specified butter fat content
Curdling milk, heating curd until it reaches desired firmness, draining curd and placing cheese into moulds to press it into shape
Placing and turning cheese blocks on shelves to cure cheese
Separating cream from milk and churning cream into butter

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.

A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.

No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.

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Qualification evidence pending.

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National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.

No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.

DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact.
DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment.
Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone.
QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review.
Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim.
SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.