Food and Drink Factory Workers

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

• 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