Skills
33 skills are associated with this occupation.
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Essential knowledge
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Optional knowledge
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Optional skills / competences
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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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Open in Job ExplorerWhat 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.
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Occupation group
Industrial and production engineers (2141)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8a925aca-f636-437c-8962-5deae170e246 |
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| ESCO code | 2141.2 |
| ISCO group | 2141 |
| Concept type | Occupation |