Food and Meat Processing and Wine

Careers in food processing and the wine industries provide an exciting challenge in the 21st Century. The food and beverage industry includes careers in the meat, seafood, wine, dairy including cheese making, olive oil production, confectionery, aerated waters, brewing industries and involves, in many instances, being able to cook, bake, operate in a food laboratory completing chemical and microbiological testing. Development of new food and beverages will satisfy your creative side as well as gaining skills in the production of nutritional, functional and safe foods through quality control. As consumers both nationally and internationally demand an increasingly sophisticated product with greater shelf life a more highly skilled workforce is needed to sustain the industries involved. Careers can encompass wine processing workers, wine tourism, cellar door sales, retail butchering, meat processing including slicers, smallgoods makers, cheese makers, brewers and food technologist.