Food and Beverage Processing Supervisors
Job description
These individuals supervise and coordinate food processing workers. They work in:
- Fruit, vegetable, meat, and fish processing plants
- Dairy manufacturing plants
- Mills
- Pastry shops
- Breweries
- Sugar refineries
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Odours
- Noise
Main tasks
- Supervise, coordinate, and plan the activities of food processing workers.
- Establish working methods to meet deadlines and coordinate work with other sections.
- Order equipment and supplies.
- Resolve work-related problems and recommend measures to increase productivity.
- Manage staff and ensure their training.
- Ensure compliance with occupational safety standards.
- Draft reports.
- Identify, evaluate, and control production-related risks.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2019 to 2021.- Minimum
- $15.25
- Median
- $23.00
- Maximum
- $38.46
Job prospects for 2022-2026
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Job prospects for 2022-2026
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2021
All of Québec
5,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 31.3% Female
- 68.7% Male
Not available.
- 31.3% Female
- 68.7% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
All of Québec
$55,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 311, 31278% of jobs
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NAICS 4110% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 453% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 562% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 11522% of jobs
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Others5% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 311, 31278% of jobs
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NAICS 4110% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 453% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 562% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 11522% of jobs
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Others5% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
DCS in technologie des procédés et de la qualité des aliments 
Code : 154A0
Placement rate: 91.4%
University
Food sciences and technology
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 58.1%
39.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 89.5%
5.3% of graduates pursue further studies
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
Also required
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Coordinators
- HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) certification.
- Several years of experience in quality control of food production.
Sometimes required
- Post-secondary training in microbiology or chemistry may be required.
- Several years of experience in the food, beverage, or related products processing industry may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Coordination
- Human resource management
- Time management
- Critical thought
- Judgment and decision-making
- Information processing
- Result evaluation
- Social perception
- Written expression
- Persuasion
- Solving complex problems
- Quality control analysis
- Active learning
- Teaching
- Negotiation
- Learning strategies
- Monitoring operations
- Operation analysis
- Systems evaluation
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Inductive reasoning
- Written expression
- Classification
- Information organization
- Near vision
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Perception speed
- Distance vision
- Selective attention
- Time sharing
- Processing flexibility
- Hand-arm stability
Knowledge and attributes
- Leadership
- Focussed on results
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Sense of responsibility
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Commitment
- Tolerance to stress
- Knowledge of mechanics
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Make, build, install
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Note about CNP
Occupational information is provided based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016. The 5-digit code of the NOC 2021 is shown in parentheses for information purposes only for occupations that correspond to those of NOC 2016.
Official name of the NOC 9213 (92012)
Supervisors, food and beverage processing
Job titles
- Quality Control Inspector (Aquatic Products)
- Fish freezing foreman
- Fish-freezing and storage foreman
- Baking forewoman - food and beverage processing
- Baking and confectionery making foreman
- Chocolate candy processing forewoman
- Jam and jelly processing foreman
- Ice cream making foreman
- Wet-starch forewoman - food and beverage processing
- Dry-starch foreman - food processing
- Fish preparation foreman
- Fish curing and canning foreman/woman
- Coffee roasting foreman
- Dairy products processing foreman
- Food and beverage processing foreman
- Milk processing forewoman
- Fish reduction foreman
- Bottling foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Poultry eviscerating foreman
- Beef dressing foreman
- Feed milling foreman
- Fruit grading foreman
- Beef boning and cutting forewoman
- Chocolate refining foreman
- Sugar refining foreman
- Hide curing foreman - food and beverage processing
- Ham curing foreman
- Cannabis processing supervisor
- Tobacco processing forewoman
- Food testing foreman/woman - food and beverage processing
- Testing and grading forewoman - food, beverage and tobacco processing
- Testing, grading and sampling forewoman - food and beverage processing
- Abattoir forewoman
- Tipping department forewoman - tobacco processing
- Threshing department foreman - tobacco processing
- Pan house forewoman - food and beverage processing
- Tobacco curing room forewoman
- Tobacco-stemming room foreman/woman
- Bakery foreman - food and beverage processing
- Char house forewoman - food and beverage processing
- Sugar filter house foreman
- Chocolate factory foreman/woman
- Poultry graders foreman/woman
- Confectionery foreman
- Cannery foreman - food processing
- Cigarette inspector forewoman
- Distillery forewoman
- Milk processing plant foreman/woman
- Wash house forewoman - food and beverage processing
- Flour mill foreman/woman
- Flour-and-grain mill foreman
- Poultry preparers foreman
- Curing room foreman - tobacco processing
- Tobacco curing room foreman/woman
- Fruit-and-vegetable canning, preserving and packing workers foreman
- Fish canning, curing and packing workers foreman
- Sugar processing workers foreman
- Slaughtering and meat packing workers foreman
- Tobacco-processing workers foreman
- Rendering plant worker forewoman
- Cigarette grader forewoman
- Meat cutting plant foreman
- Tea blending plant forewoman
- Hazard analysis critical control point (haccp) co-ordinator - food processing
- Cellar master
- Winery cellar master
- Head miller - feed-and-flour mill
- Head mixer - bakery
- Food product grader supervisor
- Poultry graders supervisor
- Production supervisor - cannabis processing
- Flour milling team supervisor
- Grain-milling team supervisor
- Food product testers supervisor
- Tobacco-processing machine operator supervisor
- Ice cream processing assistant supervisor
- Supervisor - meat packing
- Supervisor - vegetable packing
- Slaughterhouse supervisor
- Bakery plant supervisor
- Brewer supervisor
- Fish freezing supervisor
- Vegetable canning supervisor
- Production supervisor - food and beverage processing
- Food and beverage processing supervisor
- Fish processing supervisor
- Packaging supervisor - food and beverage processing
- Bottling supervisor - food and beverage processing
- Food testing supervisor
- Meat packing supervisor
- Vegetable packing supervisor
- Tobacco processing supervisor
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
WAP
This occupation is targeted by a Workplace Apprenticeship Program
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Last update: March 17, 2023
