animal feed nutritionist
ISCO: 2131. Skills: 32. Essential: 21.
Essential skills
- animal feed ingredients
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- communicate technicalities with clients
- customize diets to animals
- develop animal feeds
- ensure no harmful effects on feed additives
- evaluate nutritional value of feeds
- feed additives
- follow an environmental friendly policy while processing food
- food authentication techniques
- food legislation
- handle documentation for prepared animal feeds
- identify nutritional properties of food
- laboratory-based sciences
- maintain updated professional knowledge
- manage the reception of raw materials for animal feeds
- prepared animal feeds
- prepared animal feeds contamination hazards
- regulations for hygiene in feeding animals
Supporting skills
- act reliably
- analyse work-related written reports
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
- effects of pesticides in food raw materials
- ensure correct goods labelling
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- have computer literacy
- infections in food
- liaise with colleagues
- liaise with managers
- write work-related reports