Employment Opportunities
These estimates suggest the industry will need 13,000 entrants in total over the next decade in the South West, around 1,300 people per year on average. However, some NTOs in the sector suggest, that simple forecasts do not account for the fact that the sector is already stretched and has skill shortages. They make higher estimates of recruitment need than these forecasts to catch up on the ‘backlog’ of skills shortage as well as to meet future needs.
Estimate of net recruitment requirement 1998-2008 (recruits to replace leavers minus jobs lost through productivity increases).
There are a vast range of jobs in the agriculture sector and below is a selection of them.
- Abattoirs
- Accountancy
- Administrative and clerical staff
- Baking
- Brewing
- Catering
- Chefs
- Dairy industry
- Doorstep milk deliveries
- Driving
- Engineering maintenance
- Fish processing and fish mongering
- Food safety
- Food scientist
- Food technology
- Home economist
- Hygiene
- IT
- Marketing
- Milk collection from farms
- Nutritionist
- Packing
- Product designers
- Production line
- Purchasing
- Quality control
- Restaurants
- Retail butchering
- Retail outlets
- Sales
- Supervisory management
- Warehousing
And some of the places you can work include:
- Farms
- Warehouses
- Breweries
- Bakeries
- Local council
- Boats
- Research kitchen
- Trading Standards
- Factories
- Government departments
- Dairies
- Abattoirs
- Bottling plants
- Supermarkets
- Specialist producers
