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.
TAFE SA Career Groups within Food Processing and Wine
| Career Group | Description |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Meat Industry Workers | The Certificate I in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) will provide pre apprenticeship level training in the meat retail industry. On completion of the course, the training received will gain credits toward the apprenticeship course for units completed. Most of the butchers employed in South Australia work in retail outlets. They are trained in selecting, cutting, trimming, preparing and then displaying meat for sale. Retail butchers order their carcasses from a meat wholesaler or abattoir, where butchers are also employed. |
| Quality Managers | Quality managers can work in the food, wine and beverage manufacturing industry, and in various state government departments that deal with the quality of processed food. |
| Wine Industry Workers | These courses will prepare graduates for work in the wine industry. Depending on the specialisation area/s chosen, graduates will: develop the skills and knowledge to manage the cultivation and development of vines; work as a vineyard owner/manager or be employed by a vineyard owner as a manager; develop skills, knowledge and experience in wine and regional food production, processing and evaluation, including evaluation of tourism opportunities. |
This Industry Group information was last modified : 9/07/2008 11:18:58 AM
The information was accurate at the time of publication. TAFE SA and their agents reserve the right to make any changes necessary.
