Job Profile Detail
Supervisors in food and beverage processing supervise and co-ordinate the activities of workers who operate processing and packaging machines, and workers who grade food and beverage products. They are employed in fruit and vegetable processing plants, dairies, flour mills, bakeries, sugar refineries, fish plants, meat plants, breweries and other food and beverage processing establishments.
Job Titles
- Abattoir foreman/woman
- Abattoir supervisor
- Bakery foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Bakery plant supervisor
- Baking and confectionery making foreman/woman
- Baking foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Beef boning and cutting foreman/woman
- Beef dressing foreman/woman
- Boiling house foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Bottling foreman/woman
- Bottling foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Bottling supervisor - food and beverage processing
- Brewer supervisor
- Brewery supervisor
- Cannabis processing supervisor
- Cannery foreman/woman - food processing
- Cellar master
- Char house foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Chocolate candy processing foreman/woman
- Chocolate factory foreman/woman
- Chocolate refining foreman/woman
- Cigarette grader foreman/woman
- Cigarette inspector foreman/woman
- Coffee roasting foreman/woman
- Confectionery foreman/woman
- Curing room foreman/woman - tobacco processing
- Dairy plant foreman/woman
- Dairy products processing foreman/woman
- Distillery foreman/woman
- Dry-starch foreman/woman - food processing
- Feed milling foreman/woman
- Fish canning, curing and packing workers foreman/woman
- Fish curing and canning foreman/woman
- Fish freezing foreman/woman
- Fish freezing supervisor
- Fish preparation foreman/woman
- Fish processing supervisor
- Fish reduction foreman/woman
- Fish-freezing and storage foreman/woman
- Flour mill foreman/woman
- Flour milling team supervisor
- Flour-and-grain mill foreman/woman
- Food and beverage processing foreman/woman
- Food and beverage processing supervisor
- Food product grader supervisor
- Food product testers supervisor
- Food testing foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Food testing supervisor
- Fruit grading foreman/woman
- Fruit-and-vegetable canning, preserving and packing workers foreman/woman
- Grain-milling team supervisor
- Ham curing foreman/woman
- Hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) co-ordinator
- Hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) co-ordinator - food processing
- Head miller - feed-and-flour mill
- Head mixer - bakery
- Hide curing foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Ice cream making foreman/woman
- Ice cream processing assistant supervisor
- Jam and jelly processing foreman/woman
- Meat cutting plant foreman/woman
- Meat packing supervisor
- Milk processing foreman/woman
- Milk processing plant foreman/woman
- Packaging supervisor
- Packaging supervisor - food and beverage processing
- Pan house foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Poultry eviscerating foreman/woman
- Poultry graders foreman/woman
- Poultry graders supervisor
- Poultry preparers foreman/woman
- Production supervisor - cannabis processing
- Production supervisor - food and beverage processing
- Rendering plant worker foreman/woman
- Rendering plant workers foreman/woman - meat packing
- Slaughterhouse foreman/woman
- Slaughterhouse supervisor
- Slaughtering and meat packing workers foreman/woman
- Sugar filter house foreman/woman
- Sugar processing workers foreman/woman
- Sugar refining foreman/woman
- Supervisor - meat packing
- Supervisor - vegetable packing
- Tea blending plant foreman/woman
- Testing and grading foreman/woman - food, beverage and tobacco processing
- Testing, grading and sampling foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Threshing department foreman/woman - tobacco processing
- Tipping department foreman/woman - tobacco processing
- Tobacco curing room foreman/woman
- Tobacco processing foreman/woman
- Tobacco processing supervisor
- Tobacco-processing machine operator supervisor
- Tobacco-processing workers foreman/woman
- Tobacco-stemming room foreman/woman
- Vegetable canning supervisor
- Vegetable packing supervisor
- Wash house foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Wet-starch foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Winery cellar master
Job Duties
1. Design attractive menus
2. Develop a relationship with regular customers
3. Follow food and safety regulations
4. Order food supplies for the kitchen
5. Ensure that customers are satisfied with food and service
6. Assist with marketing events
7. Create restaurant policies
8. Hire and train new restaurant staff
9. Supervise, co-ordinate and schedule the activities of workers who process, package, test and grade food and beverage products
10. Establish methods to meet work schedules and co-ordinate work activities with other departments
11. Resolve work problems and recommend measures to improve productivity and product quality
12. Requisition materials and supplies
13. Train staff in job duties, safety procedures and company policy
14. Recommend personnel actions such as hirings and promotions
15. Prepare production and other reports.
Education Requirement
1. Completion of secondary school is usually required.
2. Post-secondary education in microbiology or chemistry may be required for some positions in this group.
3. Several years of experience in the food or beverage processing industry are required.
4. Hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) co-ordinators require HACCP certification and several years of experience in quality assurance of food production.
4 to 8 years experience required 
47,000 CAD to 65,300 CAD P.A. 
Canada
