General Description
MEAT, POULTRY AND SEAFOOD PROCESS WORKERS slaughter and eviscerate poultry, and process, grade and package meat, poultry, fish and shellfish.
Indicative Skill Level
ANZSCO Skill Level: 5
In Australia the majority of occupations in this unit group have:
- AQF Certificate I, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5)
In New Zealand the majority of occupations in this unit group have:
- NZQF Level 1 qualification, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5)
For some occupations a short period of on-the-job training may be required in addition to or instead of the formal qualification. In some instances no formal qualification or on-the-job training may be required.
Task Information
- processing offal and tripe
- moving carcasses to chillers and freezers
- loading meat products into trucks
- packing boned and sliced meat into cartons
- stunning and shackling poultry for killing and processing
- severing jugular veins of poultry, and removing viscera and residual material from poultry carcasses
- separating organs and glands, such as sweetbreads, livers, hearts and spleens, from poultry carcasses
- inspecting and grading poultry, fish and shellfish for size and quality
- packing fish and counting packs before freezing, and packing frozen fish blocks into cartons
- operating machines which slice, peel, skin and crumb fish
- cleaning and sanitising equipment and work areas
Occupations in this group:
（1）831311 MEAT PROCESS WORKER
Processes carcasses of slaughtered livestock and prepares meat and meat products.
Specialisation: Offal Separator
（2）831312 POULTRY PROCESS WORKER
Stuns and kills, dresses, trims, cuts into portions, bones, fillets, weighs, grades and packages poultry.
Specialisations: Poultry Boner、Poultry Slaughterer
（3）831313 SEAFOOD PROCESS WORKER
Scales, cleans, fillets, cuts, shells, grades and packages fish and shellfish.
Specialisations: Abalone Sheller、Mussel Opener (NZ)、Oyster Opener