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Food and Beverage Processing Supervisors

On this page

  • Job description
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2022-2026
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

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

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Very good

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
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.
  1. Food, Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
    NAICS 311, 312
    78% of jobs
  2. Wholesale Trade
    NAICS 41
    10% of jobs
  3. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    3% of jobs
  4. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    2% of jobs
  5. Agriculture and Fishing
    NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152
    2% of jobs
  6. Others
    5% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Food, Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
    NAICS 311, 312
    78% of jobs
  2. Wholesale Trade
    NAICS 41
    10% of jobs
  3. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    3% of jobs
  4. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    2% of jobs
  5. Agriculture and Fishing
    NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152
    2% of jobs
  6. Others
    5% of jobs

Training and requirements

Formation

Most training programs are offered in French only.

College

DCS in technologie de la transformation des produits aquatiques This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 231B0
DCS in technologie des procédés et de la qualité des aliments This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 154A0

Placement rate: 91.4%

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University

Food sciences and technology
Bachelor’s degree

Placement rate: 58.1%

39.5% of graduates pursue further studies

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Master’s degree

Placement rate: 89.5%

5.3% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Université Laval
  • McGill University

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
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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
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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.
Additional information

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
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Skill type

Manufacturing and utilities

WAP

This occupation is targeted by a Workplace Apprenticeship Program

  • Seafood processing plant quality control technician This hyperlink will open in a new window.

Related occupations

  • Agricultural and fish products inspectors
  • Fish and seafood plant workers
  • Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers
  • Manufacturing managers
  • Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing
  • Testers and graders, food and beverage processing

See also

  • Glossary (PDF 229 Kb)
  • Québec emploi This hyperlink will open in a new window.

See also

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Last update: March 17, 2023

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