The miller screen

Technical card first. CV second.

Every miller, quality, buyer, technical sales and commissioning candidate is screened by us — 25 to 40 minutes, in a language they will use on nights. Country of origin does not reduce it.

Wheat flour powder drifting in light

What sits on every miller card

A mill in a second country should be able to shortlist from three names without re-testing flowsheet literacy.

  1. 01Largest mill rate worked (TPH / TPD) and night-shift in command — yes or no
  2. 02Years on roller mills, separate from stone, hammer or feed
  3. 03Credential: NABIM modules 1–7 or named equivalent — gaps listed
  4. 04Wheat classes actually milled
  5. 05Control system experience
  6. 06Last ER and ash band held
  7. 07Working languages for unsupervised night shift
  8. 08Passport, right-to-work, dependants, notice, countries they will live

What we actually ask

Walk the flowsheet from first break to last reduction. Largest mill rate run, and whether they were alone on nights. Wheat 0.8 % below target Tm with 10 h bin time instead of 18 h — what happens to break release, 1M ash and SD? ER dropped and 1M ash rose; roll gaps look unchanged — rank three causes. Tighten RG versus change Diff. Purifier putting stock to the wrong side. Wheat classes actually milled.

If they cannot name break versus reduction passages, or “close the rolls” is the only answer to low ER, they are not submitted. In any country.

One screen, every country

Flowsheet, temper, ER, ash, scale and night-shift language. Country of origin does not reduce the screen. A well-spoken candidate can still fail it.

Scale and wheat are translated

20 TPD is not 200 TPD is not 800 TPD. AH/APW is not DNS/HRW is not Group 1 UK. Stone-mill years are labelled, never sold as roller-mill command.

Flour milling only

Not FMCG. Not feed mill sold as flour mill. Not bakery production. Adjacent grain roles only when they serve a mill.

Honest mobility

If the only path is a false occupation story, we walk away. Night-shift language is tested, not self-scored. Dual-career households are asked about before flights.

Credentials that travel

Gold

NABIM / UK Flour Millers Advanced Certificate (modules 1–7). Diploma or Advanced Milling Diploma for head miller.

Equivalent

Swiss Milling School, assessed Bühler expert course, SAGMA or another national milling diploma plus proven shift command at comparable TPH.

Lab

Food science or chemistry plus named methods (ICC / AACC / local). Farino, FN and ash competence recorded.

Not equivalent without evidence

Generic mechanical degree, feed-mill ticket, bakery diploma, stone-mill years, unsupervised family-mill title.

We do not take the brief

The name dies the day we become “global food jobs.” These exclusions do not expire.

  • Bakery production, dough operators, pastry, retail bakers — unless the seat is mill test baker and they can link bake faults to mill outputs.
  • Feed miller or pellet press sold as flour miller. A flour miller can convert; the seats are not the same.
  • General warehouse, FMCG packing, meat, dairy, beverage. Packing inside a flour mill is in. Packing in a biscuit plant is out.
  • HR, finance, IT, generic procurement — unless the buyer is a wheat buyer for a mill.
  • Stone-mill or 20 TPD “head miller” sold untranslated onto a 200–800 TPD roller mill.
  • Any brief that will not state mill rate, shift pattern, wheat mix and ER/ash target for a miller seat.
  • Any move that depends on mis-stating occupation, qualifications or night-shift language to a visa authority.
If the brief is a mill, write