How to become a brewer or Wine and related beverages machine operator

Official title: Brewer/Wine and related beverages machine operator

Also called: Brewer, Brewer machine operator, Brewmaster, Cocoa bean roasting machine operator, Cocoa grinding machine operator, Coffee bean roasting machine operator, Coffee blender, Coffee blending machine operator, Coffee grinding machine operator, Fermenting room man, Germination worker (malting), Kilnman (malting)

Brewer/Wine and related beverages machine operator sets, operates and attends to machinery used to process and produce beer, wines, malt liquors, coffee, tea, syrup and other beverages.

Main tasks

• Operating machinery to crush, mix, malt, cook and ferment grains and fruits to produce beer, wines, malt liquors, vinegar, yeast and related products
• Operating equipment to cool, heat, dry, roast, blanch, pasteurize, smoke, sterilise, freeze, evaporate and concentrate foodstuffs and liquids used in food processing
• Mixing, pulping, grinding, blending and separating foodstuffs and liquids with churning, pressing, sieving, grinding and filtering equipment

Ways in

• Polytechnic or ITE: Polytechnic diploma. Related diplomas: Diploma in Food & Beverage Business (Nanyang Polytechnic). Peernovo matched these from course names; polytechnics do not publish which jobs each course leads to.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

How do I become a brewer or Wine and related beverages machine operator?

Ways in include: Polytechnic diploma.

Will AI change the work of a brewer or Wine and related beverages machine operator?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026