Food and Drink Factory Workers

Food and Drink Factory Workers perform routine tasks in manufacturing food and beverages.

What the job involves

• 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