Labourers in Food, Beverage and Tobacco Processing (9617)

Among the occupations currently in highest demand in All of Québec

Occupation with high worker turnover

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Qualification and skills most often required

Aucun diplôme n’est demandé, l’entraînement à la tâche se faisant en entreprise. Parfois, les employeurs exigent quelques mois d’expérience. Pour plusieurs postes, la résistance physique à un travail répétitif est nécessaire.

Reason for labor demand

La demande de main-d’œuvre vient principalement des entreprises du secteur de la transformation des aliments. Le développement de nouveaux produits favorise la demande. Les offres d’emploi sont constantes. La demande s’explique aussi par le roulement de la main-d’œuvre entraîné par les conditions de travail parfois difficiles, comme les horaires de travail (de jour, de soir et de nuit), la faible rémunération et le caractère saisonnier de certaines entreprises de ce secteur. Les employeurs éprouvent des difficultés à pourvoir les postes disponibles en raison d’un manque de travailleuses et de travailleurs intéressés par ce secteur d’activité.

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Nature of work

Labourers in this unit group perform material handling, clean-up, packaging and other elemental activities related to food, beverage and tobacco processing. They are employed in fruit and vegetable processing plants, dairies, flour mills, bakeries, sugar refineries, meat plants, breweries and other food, beverage and tobacco processing plants.

Fields of interest

  • Doing sports or physical activities
  • Working with your hands

Main duties

  • Labourers in food, beverage and tobacco processing perform some or all of the following duties:
  • - Transport raw materials, finished products and packaging materials throughout plant and warehouse manually, or with powered equipment
  • - Measure and dump ingredients into hoppers of mixing and grinding machines or mobile tank trucks
  • - Feed flattened boxes into forming machines to construct containers
  • - Remove filled containers from conveyors and manually pack goods into bags, boxes or other containers
  • - Clean work areas and equipment
  • - Feed and unload tobacco processing machines
  • - Check products and packaging for basic quality defects
  • - Assist process control and machine operators in performing their duties.

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Labourers in Food, Beverage and Tobacco Processing (9617)

Employment requirements

  • * Some secondary school education may be required.

Skill type

  • Occupations unique to processing, manufacturing and utilities

Skill level

  • Elemental

More information

  • * There is some mobility among occupations in this group.
  • * Labourers in food, beverage and tobacco processing may progress to machine or process operating positions with experience.

Professional associations

  • Comité sectoriel de main-d'œuvre en transformation alimentaire
  • 8000, boul. Henri-Bourassa, bureau 270
  • Québec, QC
  • G1G4C7
  • Toll free: 1-877-449-5335
  • Phone: 418-623-5335
  • Fax: 418-623-1343
  • Email: info@csmota.qc.ca