Description

This Qualification covers a range of food processing industries, such as:

Grain processing (including stock feed, animal feeds, milling wheat, barley, oats and flour milling)
Baking (including large scale production of cakes, pastry, bread, biscuits and plant baking)
Retail baking
Beverages (including juices, soft drinks, cordials, aerated and still waters, energy drinks and other modified beverages, such as vitamin and antioxidant beverages, coffee, tea and ice)
Confectionery
Dairy processing
Fruit and vegetables
Grocery products and supplies (including honey, jams, spreads, sauces, dressings, condiments, spices, edible oils and fats and pasta)
Poultry.

Job Roles
The Certificate I in Food Processing is an introductory Qualification to food, beverage and grain processing that provides basic skills relevant to all FDF10 Food Processing Training Package sectors apart from pharmaceutical manufacturing. The Qualification is designed for application in a highly supervised context, such as VET in schools, induction to industry, or other equivalent introduction environments.

Additional Qualification advice
Units selected from other Training Packages must be relevant to the work outcome, local industry requirements and the Qualification level.

Note: AgriFood Skills Australia expects that the design of any training delivery and assessment program to support the achievement of this Qualification is based on:
the context required by the industry and/or enterprise
a holistic and integrated training delivery and assessment plan that identifies learning activities and evidence required
flexible delivery options including on-the-job and work-based training that support the development of competency.