New Zealand Certificate in Dairy Processing
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Subject area
Food (excluding Seafood) Processing Technology
Qualification
Check out Fees Free to see whether you are eligible for a year of fees-free study or two years industry training. Contact your provider to confirm your study options meet the criteria.
Entry requirements
TEOs arranging training or delivering programmes towards this qualification must ensure that the training arranged and programmes of learning are kept up-to-date with regard to amendments to, and replacements of, Overseas Market Access Requirements (OMARs) and General Requirements for Export (GREXs) outlined by the Ministry for Primary Industries.
About the course
What can I expect out of this qualification?
The purpose of this qualification is to provide the dairy processing sector with competent employees who have the skills and knowledge to work as operators in a cheese making, cream products, milk powder, milk protein or milk treatment department, or as milk tanker operators.
Learners will benefit by having a qualification within a training pathway that recognises progression through the dairy processing industry, as well as increased skills and knowledge acquisition to enable improved job performance and support career opportunities.
The dairy processing industry will benefit by having establish standards of competent performance for dairy processing operations that can provide domestic and international markets with confidence in quality dairy products.
This qualification is targeted at personnel with some experience in the dairy processing industry, who want to further develop their skills, knowledge, and have career progression opportunities.
Graduates will be able to be employed and work as competent operators, under limited supervision in dairy processing operations.
The optional strand in this qualification recognises the skills and knowledge required to be able to operate the automated clean in place system and heat treatment process in a dairy products processing plant.
What graduates earn
Graduates who studied Engineering and Related Technologies at this level can earn:
$31,000
Median earnings one year after study
$35,000
Median earnings two years after study
$42,000
Median earnings five years after study
Status one year after study
Employment rate two years after study
60%
Employment rate two years after study
Scholarship information
Examples of related scholarships
Meat Industry Association Scholarship
Provided by:
Massey University
Website:
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/admission/scholarships-bursaries-awards/
Value:
$5,000 (undergraduate), $10,000 (postgraduate)
Elsie and Laura Lehmann Trust
Provided by:
Massey University
Website:
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/admission/scholarships-bursaries-awards/
Value:
At the discretion of the Selection Committee
This information comes from Generosity New Zealand. For more scholarships, search their givME database (formerly called BreakOut) via your college, university or local library website.
Contact details
Main Campus Office
Free phone: 0800 691 111
Phone: (08) 00 20 80 20
Fax: (04) 801 9626
Email: info@primaryito.ac.nz
Web: http://www.primaryito.ac.nz
The MyQ data is compiled by the Tertiary Education Commission based on responses to the MyQ survey provided by recent graduates of this qualification.
NZQA supplies all other information based on material from the provider.