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General profession title

Food Technologist

Job description

The food technologist is concerned with using various food processing technologies to add value to fish species. Work at the National Food Centre involves the use of novel technologies including sous vide, osmotic dehydration, modified atmosphere packaging and freeze-chilling technologies to produce value added seafood products.

Typical work activities

Typical work activities include lab-work, sourcing fish and ingredients, dealing with industry enquiries, writing papers for publications, taking part in national and international seafood conferences, setting up workshops for dissemination of project results and small-scale investigations for industry.

Work conditions

Range of typical starting salaries:

typical graduate rate salaries

Range of typical management salaries

dependent on working sector

Working hours

Monday to Friday 9 to 5 pm

Mobility in industry

Food technology is a growing interest area providing for much opportunity in the area of work-related travel.

Permanent or temporary work available

People can secure permanent and temporary positions within this industry.

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Entry requirement

Level of Degree necessary

Honours MSc or PhD.

Relevant degree in the following subjects essential

Food Science; Food Technology; Biotechnology qualification essential

Typical years of study

5 to 8 years

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Training

It is essential to investigate the industry you are going into and familiarise yourself with all techniques you will be using on the job.

Look at the training possibilities in the Educational database

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Case study

See the following example available at this site.

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