If you are seeking a career or placement opportunities, consider exploring the Food and Beverage Manufacturing Industry in Canada.

Skills Training Across Canada (STAC) is a new national online learning program designed by Food Processing Skills Canada (FPSC) to advance workforce development. This program introduces jobseekers to the Food and Beverage Manufacturing Industry for entry level positions as frontline workers.

  • 11 Online Learning Courses
  • 6 Electives in 5 different languages
  • Digital Credentials that can be shared with potential employers are added to a personal digital wallet
  • Food Safety Courses
  • Career Centre Dashboard to monitor jobseeker progress
  • Reporting and transcript access
  • Jobseeker Dashboards to access curriculum & certificates
  • Tools & Resources
  • No cost to participate. Valued at $5,000 per person

Note: Jobseekers cannot apply for this program directly. Applications must be submitted by Employment Centres or Immigration Serving Agencies. Jobseekers are encouraged to ask their Career Centre about this program.

Curriculum

Jobseekers will be able to access the following curriculum and earn digital credentials that can be stored and shared. Having these new skills and credentials will add confidence to jobseekers and employers.

  1. I Am Food
  2. Good Manufacturing Processes
  3. Lock Out Tag Out
  4. Distribution and Warehouse Food Safety
  5. Oral Communications
  6. Employer and Employee Expectations
  7. Food Safety Culture & You
  8. Positive Attitudes in the Workplace
  9. Working with Others
  10. Digital Technology Skills
  11. Transferrable Skills

Language Stream (optional)

The following courses are available in 5 different languages (English, French, Spanish, Chinese/Mandarin, Tagalog). A comprehensive, downloadable Dictionary of Food & Beverage Processing Terms and Expressions will be a valuable resource to people who are English speaking. This dictionary is available in all languages listed above.

  • I Am Food
  • Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
  • Food Safety Culture and You
  • Lock Out Tag Out
  • Workplace Industrial Safety
  • Canadian Workplace Cultures
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For more information, download our program guide or contact info@stac-fpsc.com

Explore the FPSC Career Wheel

An interactive online tool for jobseekers & employers allows you to overview each of the 11 subsectors, and 2 job descriptions within each subsector.

This wheel, which is broken down into non-traditional categories, is a digestible and fun resource for anyone interested in exploring career paths in the food processing industry.

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Competency-Based Learning

Our Learning & Recognition Framework (LRF) is a documented model developed by industry that denies each and every qualification included within a comprehensive occupations structure. While no national governmentally-administered qualifications exist for the Food and Beverage Manufacturing Industry in Canada, FPSC has identified a need to clearly articulate the recognition levels for jobs.

This framework is unlike a national qualifications framework in that it is not tied to typical educational designations such as diploma or degree, but instead has organized nationally-validated industry competencies into a logical structure with a training focus. The framework includes levels customized to the food and beverage processing sector, and includes several micro credentials at the lower levels. Visit FPSC’s website to learn more about the LRF.