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Fruit and vegetable canner
Also known as: fruit and veg canner, fruit ad veg canning operative
About this occupation
Fruit and vegetable canners tend machines to prepare industrial products based on fruits and vegetables for storage or shipping. They perform a wide range of tasks such as sorting, grading, washing, peeling, trimming, and slicing. Moreover, they follow procedures for canning, freezing, preserving, packing food products.
Essential skills and knowledge
- exert quality control to processing food
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- perform detailed food processing operations
- check quality of products on the production line
- process fruits and vegetables
- tend canning machine
- food preservation
- administer ingredients in food production
- clean food and beverage machinery
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- food storage
- mark differences in colours
Typical tasks and preparation
From the related US occupation profile Food Processing Workers, All Other (O*NET 51-3099.00). Linked by an official crosswalk: related, not identical; details vary by country.
US median pay: US$39,680 a year (2025), 65,000 employed. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.