Food and Drink Factory Workers

Key Tasks

• •Weighing, measuring, mixing, dissolving and boiling ingredients
• •Adding materials, such as spices and preservatives, to food and beverages
• •Operating heating, chilling, freezing, pasteurising, carbonating, sulphuring and desulphuring plant
• •Monitoring product quality before packaging by inspecting, taking samples and adjusting treatment conditions when necessary
• •Operating machines to peel, core, slice, dice, pit and juice fruit and vegetables
• •Cleaning equipment, pumps, hoses, storage tanks, vessels and floors, and maintaining infestation control programs
• •Regulating speed of conveyors and crusher rollers, and adjusting tension of rollers to ensure total extraction of juice from sugar cane
• •Moving products from production lines into storage and shipping areas
• •Packaging and bottling products

Employment Projections to 2034