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Overview
Food and beverage packaging technologists assess suitable packaging for food products, balance customer specifications with company targets and develop packaging projects when products or materials change.
In job descriptions, look for packaging materials, product packaging requirements, food labelling, HACCP, packaging operations, corrective actions, food safety principles and coordination with product development or production teams.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
The work connects packaging choice with food product behaviour, production flow and customer specifications. It can include comparing material properties, reviewing labels, monitoring packaging operations and turning product changes into packaging projects.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes packaging materials, food safety principles, HACCP, product labelling and how packaging protects quality, shelf life and appearance. Some roles focus more on new product development, corrective actions or supplier and production coordination.
Salary context
Salary context is shaped by responsibility for packaging decisions, number of product lines, food-safety accountability and whether the role owns projects from requirement analysis to production handover.
Career paths
Development can move from packaging tests or operational support into project ownership, packaging specification work, quality coordination, product development support or packaging process improvement.
Good to know
Check whether a vacancy names food categories, packaging materials, labelling duties, HACCP work and contact with production. That separates packaging technology from general production or warehouse packaging tasks.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Packaging activities
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include packaging production manager and packing machinery engineer.
Explore this activityManufacture of food products
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Other occupations there include food production engineer, food technologist and chemical engineer.
Explore this activityManufacture of beverages
Another possibility is this activity. Other occupations there include food production engineer, food technologist and chemical engineer.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 1
Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other
17-3029.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
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Economic activities linked to this occupation.
10Manufacture of food products11Manufacture of beverages82.92Packaging activities
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Industrial and production engineers (2141)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8a925aca-f636-437c-8962-5deae170e246 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2141.2 |
| ISCO group | 2141 |
| Concept type | Occupation |