Labourers in food and beverage processing (NOC 9617)

Labourers in food and beverage processing do packaging, material handling, clean up and other basic activities involved in processing food, beverage and related products.

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Packaging associate

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Labourers in food, beverage and associated products processing perform some or all of the following duties:

• transport raw materials, finished products and packaging materials throughout plants and warehouses manually or using powered equipment
• measure and dump ingredients into hoppers of mixing and grinding machines or mobile tank trucks
• feed flattened boxes into forming machines to construct containers
• remove filled containers from conveyors and manually pack goods into bags, boxes or other containers
• clean work areas and equipment
• check products and packaging for basic quality defects
• help machine and process control operators with their duties

Key aspects of the work in this occupation:

• Work takes place in an indoor plant environment.
• Working with machinery poses the risk of causing injury.
• Workers may be exposed to noise and strong, unpleasant odours.