Food and Beverage Packaging Operations

QUALIFICATION NAME: Food and Beverage Packaging Operations - Level 3


Credits: 120

Duration and Focus

The modules are offered over 1 year, 3 days a month. They focus on:

  • Communicate in a variety of ways in a food and beverage manufacturing environment.
  • Maintain quality assurance and monitor critical control points in a food and beverage packaging manufacturing environment.
  • Operate a context specific range of automated packaging equipment.
  • Solve problems and improve an automated packaging process.

The elective components of this qualification allows learners to gain specialist knowledge, skills and insight into the areas of filling bottles/cans, closing bottles/cans, labeling, packaging/unpacking or washing bottles.

At the end of this Learnership, learners are able to:

  • Monitor HACCP & occupational safety
  • Operate the filling and closing process on an automated packaging line
  • Demonstrate an understanding of microbiology in a food handling environment
  • Demonstrate an understanding of basic machine operations in a manufacturing or packaging environment
  • Operate a labeling machine
  • Perform first line maintenance
  • Operate the packing/unpacking process
  • Operate a coding process
  • Perform quality control practices

Suitable for . . .

  • People who operate, control and maintain food or beverage packaging machinery in a primary or secondary packaging process within a food manufacturing environment.
  • Persons requiring a qualification in the primary packaging process within a specific food or beverage context.

Also suitable for learners wishing to articulate to other manufacturing environments such as fast-moving consumable products, the pharmaceutical, and chemical industries.

Candidate Requirements

Candidates should be able to communicate and use numeric skills comfortably at NQF level 2.

For further information on this learnership, please contact Katherine on 031 467 5640 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it