Description
Operates machines and performs routine tasks to prepare canned and frozen fruit and vegetables, and make and package sauces, jams and juices.
Skill Level
5
Alternative Titles
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Specializations
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Skills Assessment Authority
Caveats
Group: 8311 Food and Drink Factory Workers
Description
perform routine tasks in manufacturing food and beverages.
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
Skill Level
Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications outlined below.
Occupations in this Group
- Brewery Worker – ANZSCO 831112
- Confectionery Maker – ANZSCO 831113
- Dairy Products Maker – ANZSCO 831114
- Fruit and Vegetable Factory Worker – ANZSCO 831115
- Grain Mill Worker – ANZSCO 831116
- Sugar Mill Worker – ANZSCO 831117
- Winery Cellar Hand – ANZSCO 831118
- Food and Drink Factory Workers nec – ANZSCO 831199
- Baking Factory Worker – ANZSCO 831111