Dietary Technicians
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Job description
These individuals take part in planning, developing, and coordinating nutrition programs and food services. They ensure the quality control of food, under the supervision of a Nutritionist or Agronomist. They lead activities to raise awareness about proper nutrition and help implement nutrition education programs. They mainly work in health facilities and in the food industry.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
Main tasks
- Work with a Dietitian to plan menus, food regimens, and diets.
- Help check the chemical, physical, biochemical, and microbiological properties of food.
- Inform and educate the public about food.
- Help test, develop, market, and promote some food products.
- Collaborate in research on food, nutrition, and food service systems.
- Help supervise employees who prepare and serve food.
Advancement and mobility
Possibility of specializing in various areas of intervention:
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Food services management
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Food industry
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Customer service
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Inspection
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Consumption
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Communications
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Experience leads to supervisory positions.
Training and requirements
Formation
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Critical thought
- Quality control analysis
- Social perception
- Service oriented
- Judgment and decision-making
- Persuasion
- Science
- Learning strategies
- Information processing
- Solving complex problems
- Operations and control
- Monitoring operations
- Negotiation
- Result evaluation
- Oral expression
- Written expression
- Reading comprehension
Abilities
- Information organization
- Speech clarity
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Originality
- Near vision
- Deductive reasoning
- Information processing speed
- Speech recognition
- Visualization
- Hand-arm stability
- Memorization
- Digital dexterity
- Written comprehension
- Written expression
- Selective attention
- Classification
- Overall balance of the body
- Core strength
- Dynamic physical flexibility
Knowledge and attributes
- Diplomacy
- Autonomy
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to work in a team
- Rigour
- Attention to detail
- Capacity to be discrete
- Respect standards and regulations
- Knowledge of biology
- Knowledge of chemistry
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in an office
- Create, design
- Carry out research
- Work in hotels, restaurants, and tourism
- Assist and advise
- Collect, verify, sort, and classify data or information
- Conduct tests and trials, control processes
- Assist or care for people
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Other medical technologists and technicians (CNP 32129)
Skill type
Health
Last update: January 29, 2026