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Tasty Careers in Food and Drink

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Have you ever considered a career in food and drink? This is your one stop shop to finding a deliciously scrumptious Tasty Career in the Food & Drink Industry. If you want to find out more about a specific career in the industry, hear from people already in the industry or are finding job hunting a bit unsavoury, then look no further – we can help!
The food and drink industry is well known for it's world class quality produce. There's plenty of room to grow with increasing demand for new products and healthier alternatives - making it an exciting and innovative sector to work in. Why Have a Career in The Food and Drink Industry? Opportunities for all levels of qualifications, rewarding careers with rapid career progression, high average pay compared to other industries and working in a fast paced environment which is constantly growing to keep up with consumer demands are just some reasons.
The food and drink industry is made up of a broad range of careers, which all require different skills and interests. It looks set to grow quickly as global demand for our products increases. To meet future challenges of food security and climate change, we’ll be using more innovative and automated technologies, which will drive demand for engineers, scientists and mathematicians – we’ll need highly skilled individuals to help us overcome these challenges.

Case Studies

 

 

ETHAN O’BRIEN — SALES AND ACTIVATION APPRENTICE – ARTD

ELLIE EDMONDS — HR CO-ORDINATOR

DAVINA CIPULLO — FOOD TECHNOLOGIST APPRENTICE 

Food and Drink Industry Insights

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Tasty Careers Myth Buster

The Myth
The Food and Drink Manufacturing Sector isn’t a great career opportunity.

The Reality
USE YOUR LOAF!

There are good long-term Career prospects in our industry. In fact, even more people are needed to work in the sector. There is a fantastic range of possible tasty careers to choose from. You could become a Food Scientist or Technologist, involved in food safety and developing new food products, or how about working in quality assurance where you would have the responsibility of making sure that the food we eat is of the highest quality? What about working as an Engineer, a Technician, in Marketing or in Corporate Affairs? The list of job opportunities is endless! There are also a wide range of sectors within the food and drink manufacturing industry that you could work in, the biggest of which include meat, bakery and dairy.

The Myth
The food and drink manufacturing sector is out of date and old-fashioned.

The Reality
THAT’S A LOAD OF WAFFLE!

The UK food and drink manufacturing sector is exciting and innovative. We invest millions of pounds every year on research and development and launch loads
of new products.

Technology is used to cater to consumers’ growing desires to eat a wide variety of high-quality quality foods. We have invested in state-of-the-art equipment to ensure that the food we like to eat tastes good, is produced safely, and
appears on our supermarket shelves on time. For us to continue to be such a success it’s really important that we attract trained and skilled people who can ensure that the equipment used to produce our food operates effectively and efficiently, and is properly maintained.