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Food and Beverage Sciences SHSM

Interested in becoming a Food and Beverage Sciences SHSM student? Talk to your teacher or guidance department today!

  • The Food and Beverage Sciences sector includes a broad range of careers!

  • In the Specialist High Skills Major Food and Beverage Sciences program, students can focus on a career pathway that matches their skills and interests.

  • Students will get a better understanding of the Food and Beverage Sciences sector through course selections and opportunities to connect their in-school learning to real world environments, including
    Co-op work experience, postsecondary reach ahead experiences, industry-based experiential
    learning, training and certifications.

  • At graduation, students will receive a specially designated diploma.

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The SHSM - Food and Beverage Sciences program may be for you if you are interested in any of the following careers:

Apprenticeship Training

  • Bakers
  • Butchers, meat cutters, and fishmongers – retail and wholesale
  • Construction millwrights and industrial mechanics
  • Industrial electricians
  • Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing

College

  • Biological technologists and technicians
  • Chemical technologists and technicians
  • Fermentors
  • Industrial engineering and manufacturing technologists and technicians
  • Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing
  • Research chefs

University

  • Food Scientists
  • Biologists and related scientists
  • Business development officers and marketing researchers and consultants
  • Product development specialists
  • Dietitians and nutritionists
  • Inspectors in public and environmental health and occupational health and safety
  • Supervisors, food and beverage processing

Workplace

  • Labourers in food and beverage processing
  • Material handlers
  • Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing

The Food & Beverage Sciences SHSM will also provide students with opportunities to earn an assortment of trainings and certifications specific to the sector. These may include:

  • first aid/CPR/AED awareness
  • health and safety – basic
  • other sector-related trainings and certifications