CareersNOW! In Alberta
Start your career in Alberta food and beverage processing.
Endless Opportunity
No experience? Know a trade or have a diploma or degree? Whether you have skills you built somewhere else or you’re starting fresh, there are opportunities for everyone.
Room to grow
Careers here don’t stop at the first job. Processing companies often prefer to promote from within — those who start on the ground floor can find themselves in senior management later in their career.
Work That Matters
Many of the food and drinks Albertans put on the table are made here. These products find their way into kitchens across Canada and around the world.
By the numbers
Alberta’s food and beverage processing industry
The Alberta food and beverage processing industry is a multi-billion-dollar economic engine and the province’s second-largest manufacturing sector. Generating over $28 billion and supporting tens of thousands of jobs, F&B subsectors create the food we enjoy every day, including baked goods, meat products, wine and beer, dairy products, and more.
The food and beverage processing industry is also the largest buyer of Canadian agricultural production.
F&B makes up 20% of manufacturing jobs in Canada, making it the country’s largest manufacturing sector.
Canadian processors export to more than 190 countries, making Canada the world’s 5th-largest agri-food exporter.
Alberta processors are eagerly hiring to meet demand and address a costly labour shortage.
Livestream
Welcome to Careers in Alberta’s Food and Beverage Processing Sector
Presented by the Alberta Food Processors Association’s newly launched CareersNOW! Alberta program, the livestream featured an engaging panel of industry and education leaders sharing career insights, practical advice and helpful resources. Attendees learned how you can build a rewarding career in Alberta’s growing food and beverage processing sector.
Careers
Explore careers in the sector
Learn about careers in Alberta’s food and beverage processing industry based on your field of interest or expertise.
Production
The people who run the lines. Machine operators, production supervisors, and packaging workers.
Food Safety
The specialists who keep every product safe. Quality assurance technicians and food safety managers.
Research & Development
The teams behind new products and better processes. Food scientists and product developers.
Business
The commercial side of the sector. Account managers, brand managers, food purchasers, and sales reps.
Supply Chain & Warehouse
The teams moving raw ingredients in and finished products out. Logistics coordinators and warehouse leads.
Independent Study Courses
Free online training for students, jobseekers and industry professionals.
These select AFPA On Demand courses are online, self-paced, and open to anyone. Start whenever you like and work through the material at a pace that fits your schedule. Each one is built around the real demands of food and beverage processing.
Build your expertise on critical safety and equipment handling, quality control, workplace leadership, and more.
Completing each course will prepare you with valuable skills you can apply on the job, while demonstrating your commitment and knowledge to employers.
Stand Out with Employers
Build Specialized Skills
Advance Your Career
Learn on Your Schedule
Improve Workplace Safety
Understand The Industry
Course Categories
Resources
Explore first-hand experiences
Explore our video library, featuring business profiles, career interviews, and real-world stories with staff at every level, from production and quality assurance to R&D and management.
Find useful employment tips, career guidence, industry details, and career guidence through our carefully curated articles library. These articles cover the basics of the sector, the specific jobs behind the products on your shelf, and the routes people take in.
Conversations with the people who make the food and beverage processing sector run. Industry leaders, HR professionals, educators, and workers at every level talking about the work, the paths to employment, and what they wish they had known earlier.
- Indeed Alberta – Best overall for the largest number of current postings, including production, sanitation, packaging, warehouse, maintenance and supervisory jobs.
- CareersInFood – Best specialized job board for food and beverage manufacturing. It includes Alberta positions in quality assurance, food safety, production management, maintenance, meat processing and grain/oilseed processing.
- Government of Canada Job Bank – Very good for plant-floor and skilled-trades positions, and useful for checking typical wages. It currently has a dedicated Alberta food-and-beverage-processing search.
- LinkedIn Jobs – Best for professional positions such as quality assurance manager, food scientist, operations manager, supply-chain specialist, sales and senior leadership.
- Agriculture Job Connector – Alberta government job resource covering agriculture and food-processing opportunities. AFPA currently links to this as a place where employers can list jobs.
