Food Manufacturing

This industry consists of Food, Beverage & Tobacco Industry Award which cover several types of businesses such as:

Types of Businesses

The Food and Beverage Manufacturing Award covers employers in the food, beverage and tobacco manufacturing industry and their employees who fit within the classifications of the award.

The food, beverage and tobacco manufacturing industry means:

  • Preparing, cooking, baking, blending, brewing, fermenting, preserving, filleting, gutting, freezing, milling

of food, beverage and tobacco products, including stock feed and pet food.

It also includes related activities such as:

  • Receiving, storing and handling of ingredients and raw materials used to make food, beverage and tobacco products.

  • Bottling, canning, packaging, labelling, palletising, storing, packing, despatching and preparing the products for sale.

  • Cleaning and sanitising of tools, equipment and machinery used to make the products.

Examples of employees and employers covered by the Food and Beverage Manufacturing Award include:

  • Food processers

  • Qualified tradespersons in food processing

  • Producers of bottled water intended for human consumption

  • Production workers.

Source:https://www.fairwork.gov.au

Job Type: Labourers.

Skill Level: Entry Level.

ANZSCO Occupation Group: 8311 Food & Drink Factory Workers

Pathways: Vocational Education and Training (VET), Informal or on-the-job.

Physical Demand: Light-Medium-Heavy

Industry Summary

EMPLOYMENT STATEWIDE

VICTORIA

36.0 %

All Occupations: 25.6%

QUEENSLAND

19.2%

All Occupations: 20.0%

Worker Level Minium Weekly Hours Job Duties
1 38 General cleaning duties, manual packing of products, using hand trolleys and pallet packs.
2 38 Stack, prepare for storage raw and finished products and packaging material, maintaining simple production records, identify machine faults (basic), stocktaking of raw and packaging material, uses hand trolleys and pallet trucks, machine packing of product, basic ingredient blending.
3 38 Receiving, despatching, distributing, sorting, checking, packaging (other than repetitive packing), order assembly, documenting and recording of goods, materials and components.

Operation of mobile equipment including forklifts, overhead cranes and winch operation, Carrying out different measurements, undertake minor adjustments to machinery, conduct some basic testing, identify product specification problems, record test results, blend ingredients, using a predetermined recipe, operate a sifter, screens and basic milling equipment, stock recording and inventory control, sample product for quality control and laboratory testing, operating automatic, semi-automatic or single purpose machinery.
4 38 Inventory and store control including operations of all appropriate materials handling equipment, VDU and keyboard operation at a level higher than that of level 3, using tools and equipment within the scope of basic non-trade maintenance, exercising intermediate keyboard skills, supervising the work of their employees, allocate tasks to other employees, implement production requirements.
5 38 Maintaining quality standards including the approval of first-off samples, basic production scheduling and materials handling within the scope of the process or directly related functions within new materials/finished goods location in conjunction with technicians, exercising advanced keyboard skills, assists in the provisions of on the job training in conjunction with trainer, adjust equipment to meet quality assurance and process requirements of production program.

Grocery, Biscuit & Cake Manufacturing

Source: https://labourmarketinsights.gov.au

Source: https://www.commerce.wa.gov.au