Dairy Product Manufacturing

With our spacious layout, Canada is home to quite a few farms producing numerous types of milk, that make their way through various processing phases and eventually into your home. The Dairy product manufacturing subsector produces milks, cheeses, butter, yogurts, desserts and serves as an ingredient in many unsuspecting products. Needless to say, the dairy industry is booming.
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Dairy Product Manufacturing

Don’t be fooled by the name though, the dairy subsector also includes non-dairy alternatives to milks, cheeses, and spreads. There’s some fascinating innovations and research taking place in this industry using cutting-edge technologies, if you’re looking for an exciting and innovative career, the dairy industry is a good place to start!

Here’s some areas of interest:

Fluid Milk:

As you can assume, this subsector handles all kinds of milk and its various processing stages, such as homogenizing and pasteurizing. You’ll also find milk substitutes in this area like nut milk, soy, oat and other non-dairy products.

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Dehydrated

Baby formula, powdered whey, dried milk and creamers, dried whip cream mixes, malted milk and more. Dried dairy and non-dairy products often make cameos in our favorite snacks, sneaking their way into the ingredient list – this means there is a huge market and demand for even dehydrated products.

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Butter, cheese & Other dairy - related products:

Butter, cheese & Other dairy – related products: Cheese making is truly an art, we’ve got all kinds of cheeses like cream cheese, cottage, cheddar, brie, blue, processed, spreads – and it comes in all sorts of shapes: round, triangle, bricks, curds, slices, dips, strings, and more! Cheesemaking has been around for hundreds of years and is often considered a niche trade that you can master over years, and may be an area of interest for you. There’s also butter manufacturing, a staple cooking ingredient sold to consumers and as an ingredient to other manufacturers. Butter is a booming business! And let’s not forget yogurt manufacturing in all its snack and regular formats. There’s an ever-growing demand for non-dairy alternatives like nut cheeses and plant-based butters/ margarines, coconut yogurts and whips, which are also included in this subsector. In the coming years there’s likely to be numerous innovations for plant-based options which is super exciting and a fascinating area to get into!

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Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts:

ICE CREAM!!!!! Can we say that this might be the coolest job (literally) on the planet? In addition to making every ice cream flavour you can possibly dream of, which is enough of a quest, this subsector also makes a bunch of other frozen desserts like popsicles, sorbets, freezies, tofu frozen desserts, frozen yogurts, gelatos, etc. It doesn’t stop there, whip cream and some other frozen desserts like custards are also made here as well.

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COMPANIES YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE

OCCUPATIONS “NOC”KING AT YOUR DOOR:

National Occupational Classification (NOC) Codes are what our jobs and occupations in Canada are specified by! Knowing our NOC codes is how we are able to determine the various details on skills, proficiencies, and levels of knowledge needed to perform particular occupations or jobs across the various industries and sub-sectors across Canada. Listed below are some of the NOC codes for theDairy ProductProcessingsubsector:
Dairy Product Manufacturing Jobs
  • Milk Processing Foreperson (NOC 9213)
  • Milk Processing Plant Foreperson (NOC 9213)
  • Milk Production Foreperson (NOC 9213)
  • Dairy Products Processing Foreperson (NOC 9213)
  • Dairy Plant Machine Operator (NOC 9461)
  • Homogenizer Operator (NOC 9461)
  • Pasteurizer Operator (NOC 9461)
  • Sliced Cheese Maker (NOC 9461)
  • Grated Cheese Maker (NOC 9461)
  • Cheese Grater (NOC 9461)
  • Cheese Cooker (NOC 9461)
  • Process Cheese Cooker (NOC 9461)
  • Process Cheese Formulator (NOC 9461)
  • Cheese Maker (NOC 9461)
  • Cheese Blender (NOS 9461)
  • Cream Cheese Maker (NOC 9461)
  • Yogurt Maker (NOC 9461)
  • Milk Pasteurizer (NOC 9461)
  • Milk Dryer (NOC 9461)
  • Powdered Milk Dryer (NOC 9461)
  • Milk Processing Equipment Operator (NOC 9461)
  • Canned Milk Sterilizer (NOC 9461)
  • Butter Maker (NOC 9461)
  • Dairy Helper (NOC 9617)
  • Dairy Sampler (NOC 9617)
  • Cheese Cutter (NOC 9617)
  • Cheese Factory Worker (NOC 9617)
  • Cheese Maker Helper (NOC 9617)
  • Butter Packer (NOC 9617)
  • Butter Wrapper (NOC 9617)
  • Milk Powder Grinder (NOC 9617)
  • Milk Sampler (NOC 9617)
  • Ice Cream Making Foreperson (NOC 9213)
  • Ice Cream Maker (NOC 9461)
  • Ice Cream Novelty Maker (NOC 9461)
  • Ice Cream Decorator (NOC 9461)
  • Frozen Stick Novelty Maker (NOC 9461)
  • Ice Cream Worker (NOC 9617)

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