skills acTion Plan for The food and Beverage secTor - Department of ...

The Skills Working Group is co-chaired by the Group
Manager, Labour Market Knowledge and Engagement of
the Department of Labour, and The Secretary of the
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions.
This Skills Working Group report can be found on the
Department of Labour and New Zealand Trade and
Enterprise websites. A separate background document
will also be available at these locations that contains a
selection of papers that were used to inform this report.
Scope
The food and beverage sector is commonly defined as
all parts of the value chain from on-farm (paddock) to
customer (plate). However, most of the effort for this
engagement has concentrated on primary production and
manufacturing/processing components of the value chain.
This has meant a focus on certain food and beverage subsectors
as defined in Appendix 1: Australia and New Zealand
Standard Industrial Classification.
Related Work Underway
A considerable amount of skills, training and labour market
related work has already been undertaken, that is relevant
to the food and beverage sector. The Skills Working Group
acknowledges and supports this work.
Food and Beverage Specific Work Underway
Some examples of food and beverage specific work
include:
• The Human Capability and Agriculture and Horticulture
Group – developing a schools’ curriculum strategy
with goals to increase the profile of the sector,
change schools’ perception of the sector, increase
the number of people seeking careers in the sector
(eg. more science students) and introduce resources
across the curriculum.
• Department of Labour sector engagements
(particularly Tourism and Horticulture and Viticulture)
- refer to Transferring Learnings across the Primary
Primary
Producer
Food and
Beverage
Manufacturing
Food and
Beverage
Wholesalling
Food and
Beverage
Retailer
Consumer/
Customer
Food Service
import
export
World Market
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