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Occupation

Laboratory food technicians

Laboratory food technicians assist food technologists in the development of processes for manufacturing foodstuffs and related products based on chemical, physical and biological principles. They perform research and experiments on ingredients, additives and packaging. Food technicians also check product quality to ensure compliance with legislation and regulations. They perform standardised tests to determine the chemical, physical, or microbiological features of products for human consumption.

Based on analysing 354 job ads this job spends 2.7% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 13 skills asked for, of which 3.2% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £23,400 - £25,350.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

Outer London - South
Lancashire
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Cumbria
East Wales

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Implement environmental protection measures

Found in 21 job ads (24.7%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 72 job ads (2.9%)

Health and safety regulations

Found in 71 job ads (2.8%)

Communication

Found in 66 job ads (2.6%)

Teach food science

Found in 56 job ads (2.2%)

Set up equipment for food production

Found in 42 job ads (1.7%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Manufacture of food products

Found in 113 job ads (41.5%)

Education

Found in 23 job ads (8.5%)

Manufacture of prepared meals and dishes

Found in 13 job ads (4.8%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 9 job ads (3.3%)

Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 9 job ads (3.3%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.