Current Projects

Petrina Wetzel, Skilled Group National Manager - Training Services, and Casey van Berkel, VFITB Project Consultant discuss the food operators project.

Upskilling Food Operators 2010

The VFITB is conducting a project in 2010 to analyse current training practices in Victoria, for food operators. The Victorian Manufacturing Skills and Training Taskforce is providing support for this project to be conducted. This work is directly link to the 2009 project below on food maintenance apprenticeship training, to see if current training is meeting the needs of the food sector, with a view to improving productivity. This new project is interested in hearing from processing companies in the following fields:

• Dairy (milk)
• Beverages
• Confectionery
• Poultry
• General Foods

You are invited to access the attached survey, complete your company's information and ideas and return to us via scanning and emailing.

The final report and recommendations will be available in the second half of the year. Please contact the VFITB if you have any queries or are keen to be involved in this project. We are hoping to hear of where you believe your training needs to be going in coming years and to raise awareness of the 'about to be released' Food Training Package FDF10, which has significant new technical units in levels 3 and 4. Other areas of skill development for discussion include:

• Sustainability
• Communication
• IT/computer data input and interpretation
• Team building and competitive manufacturing
• Compliance

• Please download the Industry Survey here [DOC: 93KB].
• Project Progress Report [PDF: 88KB].

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Graduate Diploma in Food Industry Management 2010

Nicole Lam, Training Coordinator; Lutz Schmidt, Labour Analyst, Nestle Snackfoods and Confectionery; and David Trembath, VFITB Curriculum Writer

Access the NEW Voc Grad Cert in Food Industry Management via the TSN website. Simply enter the course code or title - 22035VIC

Last year the VFITB developed a new qualification for the food industry, at the industry's request. This was the Graduate Certificate in Food Industry Management. (see below) This year we are producing the second stage qualification, the Graduate Diploma. Project steering committee members include representatives from:

• Murray Goulburn Co-operative Company Pty Ltd
• Nestle
• Dairy Australia
• Patties Foods
• Ai Group - Confectionery sector
• NCDEA, Gilbert Chandler campus
• Biosciences RMIT University

Current documents for download:
Please note that all documents are drafts and have not been finalised.

• Potential Units to comprise Vocational Graduate Diploma of Food Industry Managerment [PDF: 197KB]
• VFITB Project 2010 - Vocational Grad Dip in Food Industry Management [PDF: 195KB]
• Revised Course Structure (Updated 5/08/2010) [PDF: 48KB]
• Vocational Graduate Diploma of Food Industry Management [PDF: 130KB]
• Food Industry Management Qualification Summaries [PDF: 90KB]
• Compentency unit: Manage compliance requirements [PDF: 76KB]
• Competency unit: Manage food industry projects [PDF: 71KB]

Please email davetrem@ozemail.com.au for further information. The curriculum writer, David Trembath, will be releasing initial material in June.