What Does a Process Operator: Food Manufacturing Do?

A Process Operator: Food Manufacturing monitors, adjusts, and maintains food processing systems and equipment

Job Related Skills, Interests and Values

  • Uses and maintains tools and equipment.
  • Handles, stores, and disposes of hazardous workplace materials.
  • Writes work reports including standard work documentation as well as safety reports.
  • Maintains service documents including service call sheets, work orders, work performance sheets and log books, and writing numerous work reports such as injury reports, environmental reports and maintenance charts.
  • Monitors and runs analogue, electronic or computerized control panels.
  • Maintains process equipment and components
  • Controls and supervises process operations, operates a central control room, and carries out process control procedures.

What Preparation and Training Do You Need?

To become a Process Operator: Food Manufacturing, you need Grade an Ontario Secondary School Diploma, preferably with credits in Math and Science.  Completion of 6480 hour apprenticeship compromised of on-the-job training and industry approved theory including 480 hours of in-school or equivalent correspondence training is also necessary.

What’s Your Future as a Process Operator: Food Manufacturing?

You would likely obtain employment and begin an apprenticeship working in a candy, food or beverage packaging plant.  Those who complete this apprenticeship will be well-positioned to move into management or supervisory positions at their own workplace, and will have marketable skills that will make them more mobile in the industrial sector.   

Wage Rate

  • As an Apprentice you earn less than a Journeyperson
  • this rate increases gradually as you acquire skills and gain competency
  • Workers in this field can expect to earn a maximum wage ranging between $20 and $25 per hour.

Self-Rating

Ask Yourself: Is Working as Process Operator: Food Manufacturing for You?

Do you enjoy working with machinery?

Yes      No

Do you enjoy working with others to get a job done efficiently?

Yes      No

Do you emphasize safety in the workplace for yourself and others?

Yes      No

Do you enjoy being a part of a process that creates a larger finished product?

Yes      No

Can you bend, lift, stretch, stand?

Yes      No

If you answered Yes to most of these questions, a career as a Process Operator: Food Manufacturing may be for You!

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