Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a food technician can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a food technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Food technicians assist food technologists in the deveolpment of processes for manufacturing foodstuffs and related products based on chemical, physical, and biological principles. They perform research and experiments on ingredients, additives and packaging. Food technicians also check product quality to ensure compliance with legislation and regulations.

Also known as food tech specialist, technician for sustainable food industry, food technology specialist, food technology expert, food tech expert.

Technicians and associate professionals 80 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: food biotechnologist, 51%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
food biotechnologist 51% covered food technologist 49% covered food production operator 48% covered food production engineer 44% covered food grader 43% covered food technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from food technician, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a food technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A food technician needs 32 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • manage all process engineering activities management skills
  • food ethics arts and humanities
  • manage packaging material handling and moving
  • monitor freezing processes information skills
  • promote ethical eating communication, collaboration and creativity
  • food product ingredients engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • monitor ingredient storage information skills
  • monitor the production line information skills
  • functional properties of foods engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • molecular gastronomy engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a food technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Food technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a food technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.