food and beverage packaging technologist
Food and beverage packaging technologists assess appropiate packaging for various food products. They manage matters in relation to packaging while ensuring customer specifications and company targets. They develop packaging projects as required.
food and beverage packaging technologist food and beverage packaging technologists assess appropiate packaging for various food products. They manage matters in relation to packaging while ensuring customer specifications and company targets. They develop packaging projects as required. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include types of packaging materials, product packaging requirements, packaging functions, packaging engineering, quality assurance methodologies.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £47,946 a year for Production and process engineers (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £39,642 to £58,754 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 2125). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Professionals” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only food and beverage packaging technologist, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 2. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
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Frequently asked questions
What does food and beverage packaging technologist do?
Food and beverage packaging technologists assess appropiate packaging for various food products. They manage matters in relation to packaging while ensuring customer specifications and company targets. They develop packaging projects as required.
What skills does food and beverage packaging technologist need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include types of packaging materials, product packaging requirements, packaging functions, packaging engineering, quality assurance methodologies, packaging processes. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace food and beverage packaging technologist?
Our AI-durability model gives food and beverage packaging technologist a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.