Food Technologists

The Diploma of Food Science & Technology is your first step in an exciting career in the food and beverage processing industry. It does not matter if your interest is in dairy, including cheese making, retail meat butchery, meat processing, baking, brewing or any other sector of food and beverage industry, this Diploma will allow you to cultivate your passion for the science of food and the technology of its manufacture, on a grand scale. You can express your creative side by developing new foods, customising foods to meet specific nutritional or functional requirements and market these foods whilst also applying your skills in quality control to the continuous production of safe, high quality product. If you have a career interest in laboratory operations, then you could choose a position in the chemical and microbiological testing of food or in testing the functionality of ingredients that have recently become available.

Courses which are accredited meet the national standards as set down by the National Training Framework (NTF), the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) and National quality assurance requirements such as the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF). The courses are recognised throughout Australia and once you have finished your studies, by completing the relevant core and elective subjects, your efforts are recognised by achieving a qualification and receiving a formal parchment. Assessment is often conducted in real or simulated work places which measure your ability to perform competently in job focused outcomes.