How to become a Food and Related Products Machine Operator
Official title: Food and Related Products Machine Operators
Food and related products machine operators operate machines for food processing, food and beverage manufacturing, animal feed manufacturing, and tobacco leaf processing and tobacco products manufacturing.
Main tasks
- Operate machines to slaughter animals and cut meat and fish into pieces to specification
- Operate machines and ovens to mix, bake or otherwise make bread, flour and confectionery products
- Operate machines to crush, mix, malt, cook and ferment grain and fruit to make beer, wine, malt liquors, vinegar, yeast and related products
- Operate equipment to make jam, cheese, processed cheese, margarine, syrup, ices, dough, ice cream, sausages, chocolate, corn syrup, edible fats and dextrin
- Operate equipment to cool, heat, dry, roast, blanch, pasteurise, smoke, sterilise, freeze, evaporate and concentrate food and drinks for processing
- Operate mixing, extruding, grinding and filtering equipment to blend, pulp, grind and separate food and drinks
- Process tobacco leaf by machine into cigarettes, cigars, cut tobacco and other tobacco products
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$516,000 a year
- Demand for Machine operators and assemblers jobs is projected at about 1,647,000 in 2024 and about 1,698,000 in 2030. (+3.1%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How much does a Food and Related Products Machine Operator earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$516,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Food and Related Products Machine Operator a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 3.1% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Food and Related Products Machine Operator?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- 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