95106 Labourers in food and beverage processing

What this occupation covers

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

Official main duties

The NOC profile lists 8 main duties for this code.

• 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 and unload food and beverage processing machines
• 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
• Check products and packaging for basic quality defects
• Assist process control and machine operators in performing their duties.

Do not copy these lines into your reference letter. The letter has to describe what you actually did, in your employer’s words. DUTYPROOF flags wording lifted from the NOC as something to review, and an officer reading a letter that mirrors the NOC reads it the same way.

What DUTYPROOF screens for

This is DUTYPROOF’s screening threshold, not IRCC’s decision. For this NOC, screening requires at least 2 of its 8 official duties to be evidenced in your own words, plus the required letter elements. IRCC asks that you performed the actions in the occupation’s lead statement and a substantial number of its main duties — so treat the duty coverage as the number that matters, not the badge.

Codes this one is confused with

The NOC profile names these itself. Choosing the wrong code of a look-alike pair is the most common way genuine work experience fails to establish eligibility.

• 94142 Fish and seafood plant workers
• 95107 Labourers in fish and seafood processing
• 94140 Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing
• 92012 Supervisors, food and beverage processing
• 94143 Testers and graders, food and beverage processing

Excluded from this code

• Fish and seafood plant workers (See 94142 Fish and seafood plant workers)
• Labourers in fish and seafood processing (See 95107 Labourers in fish and seafood processing)
• Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing (See 94140 Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing)
• Supervisors, food and beverage processing (See 92012 Supervisors, food and beverage processing)
• Testers and graders, food and beverage processing (See 94143 Testers and graders, food and beverage processing)

Job titles filed under this code

A title on this list does not by itself put your experience in this code — the duties in your letter decide that.

animal feed sack filler · bagger - food and beverage processing · baker helper · bakery labourer · bakery products bander · bakery products divider - food and beverage processing · bakery products packager · bakery products wrapper · banding machine tender - tobacco products · barrel cleaner - food and beverage processing · barrel filler - food and beverage processing · beef marker - food and beverage processing · beer sampler - food and beverage processing · beet washer · beet washer helper · bin cleaner - food and beverage processing · biscuit packer · blender and packer - food and beverage processing · blender and wrapper - food and beverage processing · bolter helper - food and beverage processing · bottle caser - food and beverage processing · bottle checker - food and beverage processing · bottle washer · bottle washer - food and beverage processing

Employment requirements

• Some secondary school education may be required.