food grader
ISCO: 7515. Skills: 44. Essential: 30.
Essential skills
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- assess quality characteristics of food products
- ensure correct goods labelling
- food and beverage industry
- food authentication techniques
- food legislation
- food materials
- food preservation
- food product ingredients
- food safety principles
- food safety standards
- food science
- food storage
- functional properties of foods
- grade foods
- identify nutritional properties of food
- keep up-to-date with regulations
- legislation about animal origin products
- manage time in food processing operations
- perform food risk analysis
- perform food safety checks
- perform quality audits
- perform sensory evaluation of food products
- prepare visual data
- processes of foods and beverages manufacturing
- quality assurance methodologies
- risks associated to physical, chemical, biological hazards in food and beverages
- store raw food materials
- work in a food processing team
- work independently in service of a food production process
Supporting skills
- advice food processing professionals
- advise on food preservation
- analyse samples of food and beverages
- apply scientific methods
- develop standard operating procedures in the food chain
- exert quality control to processing food
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- handle communications in the food processing industry
- identify hazards in the workplace
- keep up with innovations in food manufacturing
- measure precise food processing operations
- perform detailed food processing operations
- provide food labelling expertise
- write work-related reports